KADUNA AGRIC. DEVT.

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The Kaduna/Katsina Agricultural Development Project will seek to apply statewide the successful experience of the Funtua Agricultural Development Project (Loan 1092-UNI) which was located in the central zone of Kaduna State. Similar to its predecessor, the project will consist of a package of farm support services and physical infrastructure designed to benefit some 430,000 smallholder farm families throughout the State. Support services will include extension advice, improved seeds, farm input supply and crop protection measures. Physical infrastructure will include the construction of feeder roads and small dams for watering cattle. The project will continue and amend the assistance provided to erstwhile Kaduna State in the new Kaduna and Katsina States with the core activities: (a) intensified and unified extension services, adapt research and contract seed production; (b) small-scale irrigation deve (c) veterinary services; (d) input supplies, including encouraging the private retailers; (e) strengthening cooperative rural credit institut (f) essential rual infrastructure; and (g) strengthening the capacity state ministries of agriculture and natural resources (MANR) for policy formulation, planning and expenditure implementation.