COOPERATIVE FARM PROJECT

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The proposed project would establish new production cooperatives over a two-year period on 160,000 ha in Northern Tunisia, each on about 1,000 ha; it would also consolidate development of the 213 cooperatives established prior to 1966 on 185,000 ha and provide additional capital inputs to state farms, now under the Office des Terres Domaniales (OTD), intended for eventual absorption into the cooperative movement. Investments financed under the project would include farm buildings, livestock buildings, farm machinery, small irrigation equipment, tree crop establishment, range pasture improvement, soil and water conservation, livestock, managerial and technical assistance and feasibility studies. The project is geared to the production of hard and soft wheat as the major cash crop supplemented by forage crops and livestock.