Second National Agricultural Services Development Project

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The Second National Agricultural Services Development Project aims to: (i) support long-term agricultural production; (ii) increase agricultural and livestock productivity and farmers' revenues; (iii) improve natural resource management and promote sustainable production systems; (iv) help the Government implement an improved animal health system, largely based on private veterinary services; and (v) promote and empower, on a pilot basis, representative farmers' organizations. The project includes the following five main components: 1) agricultural research; 2) agricultural extension (rainfed and irrigated crops, livestock, natural resource management); 3) animal health and pastoralist promotion; 4) pilot programs consisting of: (a) promotion of farmer organizations; and (b) a program for small rural infrastructures to study the processes and feasibility of financing village-level operations intended for communal usage; and 5) restructuring of agricultural services.