RURAL DEVT./DOSSO

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The project comprises a five-year program intended to increase farm incomes and improve the welfare and standard of living of the rural population of Dosso Province and to build up an extension service through: (a) the introduction of improved farming practices for rainfed cereals, cowpeas and groundnuts; (b) the improvement of vaccination coverage, delivery of drugs and feed supplements and animal husbandry practices for beef cattle and work oxen; (c) the construction of small-scale irrigation schemes for 200 ha of bottomlands; (d) the introduction of a Training and Visit extension system; (e) the strengthening of the farm input and implement supply system; and (f) applied research. Training, extension, input supply and credit services would be made accessible to about 80,000 farm families, of whom 25,000 are expected to adopt the recommended improved practices.