FEEDER ROADS

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The proposed project aims primarily at improving 1,000 km of feeder roads which support Government's agricultural program and creating an appropriate structure for executing comprehensive feeder road programs. The project would finance: (a) highway construction equipment and spare parts; (b) labor, materials and supplies for the improvement program; (c) expert services to assist in establishing a Feeder Roads Technical Section in the Directorate of Public Works, in implementing and monitoring the above program, and in training technicians, mechanics, equipment operators and training officers; and (d) construction of offices for the newly created Feeder Road Technical Section. The improved feeder road network will substantially reduce vehicle operating costs, ameliorate the present marketing and input distribution system and decrease storage costs and losses to the farmer from crop wastage in the field.