RURAL PROJECTS FUND

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The Rural Projects Fund Project for Chad consists of: (a) development and initial operation of 42 small-scale pump irrigation perimeters and five service centers along the northern Chari River; (b) construction of 200 warehouses in the Cotton Zone; (c) rehabilitation of a pastoral well network (about 300 lined wells) in the Batha prefecture in the Sahelian Zone; (d) establishment and initial operation of a tubewell drilling and open well maintenance unit to serve villages in three prefectures in the Cotton Zone, including the rehabilitation of about 146 lines wells and the installation of about 110 tubewells to be operated by foot pumps; (e) minor structural repairs and spot resurfacing spread over about 1,200 km of feeder roads in the Cotton Zone; (f) buildings and equipment for animal-feed production and poultry marketing near Ndjamena; and (g) land improvements and water control works in bottomlands (about 700 ha) in the Cotton Zone.