INTEGRATED AGR.DEV.P

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The project would assist Government to implement its agricultural development program by initiating a program of integrated rural development and by strengthening Government services and institutions. It would include: establishing a project management unit within the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources; planting 510 acres of oil palm to complete a 2,000 acre estate; providing smallholders with credit for bringing 6,000 acres of inland swamp into rice production, planting 750 acres of cocoa, and planting 1,830 acres of oil palm; constructing a 9 ton/hour palm oil mill and 20 rice mills each capable of processing 500 tons paddy/annum; training project participants in modern agricultural techniques; preparing an agricultural development project in the north of the country, and a forestry project in the central region; the establishment of an Agricultural Development Authority to own and operate the oil palm nucleus estate and mill, and to take over the management of project credit operations after the disbursement of the IDA credit is completed.