RANGELANDS DEVT. PRO

closed

The project would provide for: (a) the institution of land planning and range management programs in conjunction with a program for the gradual control of livestock numbers; (b) the establishment of a basic veterinary and livestock extension service designed to reach the nomadic pastoralists; (c) construction of water facilities including both permanent and rainy season water ponds as well as a small number of boreholes and concrete water tanks; (d) construction of trade roads and feeder tracks; (e) the development of fattening ranches and a feedlot (Southern Rangelands only) and smallholder fattening schemes; (f) a program of trials and studies with emphasis on improved range use and grazing control practices; (g) training of project staff, livestock owners and tribal leaders; and (h) provision of supplemental staff within LMB in order to improve its overall efficiency and to enable it to provide technical and administrative services as well as staff for the three subproject units.