MECHANIZED FARMING I

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The proposed second project would develop an additional 420,000 feddans over a five-year period. It consists of: (a) demarcating and leasing to farmers 280 farms of 1,500 feddans each (180 at Umm Seinat and 100 at Habila), land clearing and mechanical cultivation of sorghum, sesame and other rainfed crops; (b) supervised farm credit, technical services and project administration together with the provision of domestic water supply and the construction and improvement of roads; (c) an expanded program of research for rainfed agriculture, a feasibility study to identify further areas for mechanized rainfed farming, an experimental smallholder program; and (d) expension an improvement of the existing Farm Machinery Training Center at Tozi.