BLACK VOLTA AGR.DEVT

closed

Closed

The project consists of the following major components: (a) providing technical assistance to the Ministry of Planning, Rural Development, Environment and Tourism; (b) providing the Bougouriba ORD with the staff, housing, offices, equipment, vehicles and funds; (c) providing about 16,000 farm families with the extension and other support services; (d) providing participating farmers with seasonal credit for the purchase of insecticides and fertilizers and medium-term credit for farm implements; (e) providing efficient veterinary services; (f) creating a training center for project staff and farmers; (g) creating a research station to carry out adaptive research and operate a seed multiplication unit; (h) improving domestic water supplies through a well digging and rehabilitation program; (i) carrying out the studies and surveys needed for the improvement of the road network of the project area; (j) improving about 660 km of secondary and tertiary roads; (k) establishing a topographic unit to map out and prepare plans for the development of land for settlement by migrants.

World Bank Group

Project

Road, Water Supply and Storage, Automotive, Hotel, Raw Materials, Government