LIVESTOCK II

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The Village Livestock and Rural Development Project for Madagascar will include: (a) development of an intensive veterinary and livestock extension service; (b) improvement of 10,000 ha of communal pasture for about 200 villages through the introduction stylosanthes; (c) construction of water facilities for about 300 villages; (d) improvement or construction of about 170 km and maintenance of about 280 km of secondary and tertiary roads; (e) construction of 28 village schools and of an agricultural training center, and provision for eight mobile health units; (f) three pilot development programs in the Middle West Zone; an extension, veterinary, and community development program, a beef-share-fattening program, and a pig production scheme; and (g) provision of technical services, training, project monitoring and evaluation, and preparation of follow-up projects.