AGRIG DEVT TERRES-NE

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The First Terres Neuves Settlement Project consists of: (a) surveying the project area in detail, including aerial photography; (b) creating, staffing and equipping a State Company to carry out the project; (c) constructing feeder roads, warehouses and wells; (d) recruiting and transporting to the project area, 300 farm families and settling these families in six villages to be located and developed under the project; (e) providing extension services both to project settlers and to 250 farmers' families already established in the area; (f) providing seasonal and medium-term credit to settlers and established farms by means of a revolving fund operated by the State Company; (g) providing a central pool of equipment for hire to project farmers and to those already settled there; (h) conducting the studies needed to determine the size, scope, and operation of subsequent phases of the settlement program; (i) establishing marketing arrangements; (j) carrying out surveys of the socio-economic and technical results of the project and feasibility studies of a second phase of settlement.