RURAL DEVT. I

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The First Rural Development Project will include construction of some 1,400 scattered small projects to raise rural standards of living and improve the income and health of rural communities: about 500 wells for domestic water supply; about 700 warehouses for storing farm inputs; some 190 small land and water development projects, involving drainage and water control in swampy depressions and areas below existing dams, and soil erosion control; about 5 feeder road projects totalling about 270 km; and other sub-projects to be identified that will be economically feasible and have high development priority; studies for the health effects of the projects and studies of the impact of the project on government revenues, and of participants' ability to repay investment costs.