AG.SEC.ADJ.LN.I

closed

The proposed loan would support the Government's agricultural sector adjustment program during the three-year period 1985-87. The principal objective of the program is the transition to a self-reliant, financially independent and responsive production and marketing system in order to stimulate exports and reattain historical growth. The main instruments would be reforms to: (i) reduce producer subsidization while maintaining adequate incentives; (ii) improve the input distribution, marketing and credit systems; (iii) improve the public investment allocation system in the sector, particularly for the Core Irrigation and Drainage Investment Program; (iv) enhance the research, extension, protection and disease control services; and (v) strengthen management, planning, policy analysis and public expenditure programming for the sector.