Nusa Tenggara Agricultural Area Development Project

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The main objectives of the Nusa Tenggara Agricultural Area Development Project are to raise smallholder incomes, strengthen local level institutions, and foster broad-based participation at the grassroots level. There are three main components to the program: (1) the establishment of the Naibonat Assessment Institute for Agricultural Technology (NAIAT) to carry out resource-based, farmer-participatory, location-specific, adaptive research and technology transfer with emphasis on decentralized planning, management, and decision making; (2) agriculture-based area development involving intensifications of agricultural production systems in village irrigation schemes, a pilot scheme promoting improved dryland crop/animal farm system technology, livestock distribution on credit, forage crop development, poultry vaccination, house plot cropping intensification, farm access roads, and local community initiatives; and (3) strengthening agricultural support services and project administration at the provincial, district, and sub-district levels through rehabilitation and improvement of agricultural support services facilities, staff training, workshops and seminars, and technical assistance.