EAST SENEGAL LIVESTO

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The project would include: (a) developing and operating a grazing scheme on about 1.4 million ha of understocked grazing land in the northern part of Eastern Senegal, involving principally: (i) organizing some 6,500 predominantly pastoralist families into about 65 grazing units; (ii) constructing about one hundred wells about 2,400 km of firebreaks; (iii) granting up to 300 credits to herders for the purchase of breeding animals, 500 credits for supplementary feed (cottonseed) and 30 credits for oxdrawn carts and small farm equipment; (b) improving animal health services; (c) providing fellowships and opportunities for visits to livestock development projects abroad for Senegalese graduates, project staff and pastoral leaders, and providing agricultural extension workers with training in livestock husbandry; and (d) monitoring and evaluating the project, and formulating future livestock investment proposals.