COCOA/COFFEE II

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The Second Cocoa Coffee Development Project for Togo will continue cocoa-coffee rehabilitation begun under the First Cocoa-Coffee Development Project. It will be implemented over a five and a half year period and focus mainly on replanting by about 17,000 smallholders of 7,500 ha of coffee and 4,000 ha of cocoa; food-crop planting within cocoa and coffee areas as well as outside the plantations; providing marketing facilities for plantain; supply the farmers with improved extension services, including cocoa, coffee, and food-crop planting materials; rehabilitation and maintenance of 300 km of feeder roads in the project area; and technical assistance to carry out a project evaluation, including preparation of a possible follow-up project, and to strengthen SRCC (Societe Nationale pour la Renovation et le Developpement de la Cacaoyere et de la Cafeiere Togolaises - National Cocoa and Coffee Development Agency), the project executing agency and PCU (Project Credit Unit).