OIL PALM I

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The Mid Western States Oil Palm Project will be carried out over a nine-year investment period 1975 through 1983 and will involve: establishing an Oil Palm Division of the Tree Crop Unit created at Benin under the second Cocoa loan to implement the replanting program; new planting/replanting of 8,000 ha of smallholder oil palm and 8,000 ha of nucleus oil palm estates; improving about 299 km of earthroads to facilitate all-weather collection of ffb from smallholders; operating a grant/credit scheme for smallholders; training staff and farmers at selected institutions and through in-service courses; the construction and operation of two palm oil mills by Oil Palm Company (OPC) to process the total production from the estates and smallholders; establishing a fruit collection system to be operated by OPC for estate and smallholder production; establishing under the Federal Department of Agriculture a Monitoring and Evaluation Unit (MEU) with a Tree Crop Section at Benin; initiating field studies of small-scale processing for wild palm grove production. The East Central State Oil Palm Project will be carried out over a nine-year investment period 1975 through 1983 and will involve: establishing a Smallholder Management Unit within the Ministry of Agricultural Production and Animal Husbandry to implement the replanting program; replanting 16,000 ha of smallholder wild palm groves; improving about 571 km of earth roads to facilitate all-weather collection of fresh fruit bunches from smallholders; operating a grant/credit scheme for smallholders; training staff and farmers at selected institutions and through in-service courses; the construction and operation of the oil palm mills by the Agricultural Development Authority to process the fruit produced by the project smallholdings; establishing a fruit collection system to be operated by ADA for smallholder production. The Western State Oil Palm Project will be carried out over a nine-year investment period 1975 through 1983 and would involve: establishing a Smallholder Management Unit within the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources to implement the planting program; new planting/replanting 4,000 ha of smallholder oil palm and planting 6,000 ha of nucleus oil palm estates; improving about 148 km of earth roads to facilitate all-weather collection of fresh fruit bunches from smallholders; operating a grant/credit scheme for smallholders; training staff and farmers at selected institutions and through in-service courses; the construction and operation of two oil palm mills by the Western Oil Palm Company (WOPC) to process the fruit produced by the project smallholdings and estates; establishing a fruit collection system to be operated by WOPC for smallholder production.