MARITIME R.D.

closed

The Maritime Region Rural Development Project for Togo consists: (a) improving and diversifying the production of the principal upland crops on some 18,500 ha and developing: (i) about 3,000 ha of low land for rainfed rice cultivation and providing credit for the purchase of 110 power tillers and 75 small rice mills; (ii) 25 ha of vegetable production; and (iii) 600 ha of smallholder coconut; (b) infrastructure development through the construction of about 300 km of secondary and feeder roads; 20 tube wells and 2 earth dams; 15 dispensaries; 150 village stores; and 20 village markets; and (c) studies to prepare: (i) a gravity irrigation scheme for 1,000 ha for rice cultivation and to make investment proposals for areas to be freed of onchocerciasis; and (ii) field trials to test techniques to restore the productivity of depleted soils and test the resistance of coconut hybrids to Kaincope disease.