IRRIG. AGRIC. INTENS

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The principal objective is to assist the government in increasing production of staple food and thereby increasing farm incomes for some 2.8 million rural families in the North China Plain. The project will: (a) improve and expand irrigation and drainage facilities to some 1.14 million ha of low and medium yielding land covering sections of 73 counties in the provinces of Anhui, Jiangsu and Shandong; (b) provide a complementary package of integrated agricultural inputs and support services to increase production; (c) provide institutional development in technical skills, project implementation and management through technical assistance, operational research and training programs; and (d) implement an environmental monitoring management program to sustain the projected agricultural productivity.