RAINFED AGRICULTURAL

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At the national level, the project would include: (a) a research program; (b) training of research, extension, and soil and water conservation service technical staff; and (c) about 40 man-years of consulting services. In nine rainfed districts, the project would include the following: (a) a farm extension program following the general model of the T and V system; (b) production system research and on-farm testing of new technology in support of the extension program; (c) a soil and water conservation program, including terraces, contour furrows and small water storage reservoirs, covering approximately 65,000 ha and benefitting about 7,000 farmers; (d) a forestry program covering approximately 10,500 ha of pine plantations, 900 ha of on-farm woodlots, and 2,000 ha of windbreak trees. This program would involve about 1,000 farm families; (e) provision of short- and medium-term farm credit to 37,000 farmers to enable them to adopt the technical packages promoted by the extension service; and (f) a rural works program, including the construction or improvement of some 2,880 km of farm to market roads servicing some 80,000 farm families, small irrigation schemes serving 7,000 ha, and drainage works covering some 30,000 ha and benefitting about 2,000 farm families.