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The First Livestock Project for Niger is intended to raise rural incomes, improve management of animal, water and pasture resources, broaden the competence of the Livestock Department, and increase and improve cattle and sheep fattening by smallholders in the cropping zone. The project will include provision of drugs, vaccines and feed supplements; delineation of pastoral units and constitution of formal associations of pastoralists; construction and operation of five pastoral centers; advice on animal husbandry and range management techniques and selective extension of stock watering points; extension of the existing animal health and marketing infrastructure; provision of credit for and advice on cattle and sheep fattening, of vehicles, equipment and additional staff and new offices for the Livestock Department, and establishment of a project management unit.