Seychelles - Integrated Agriculture development Project

The Integrated Agriculture Development Project (IADP) has a very high profile in the Government of Seychelles strategy to diversify the country’s economic base, reduce the country’s high dependence on imported food and minimize dangers arising from vulnerability to external forces. The project consisted of the establishment of irrigation infrastructure, drainage facilities for small scale production of vegetable crops, crop production support through provision of inputs, farmer’s training and protection of crops using IPM. It also consisted of providing support to the mechanization unit, construction of feeder roads, animal and plant quarantines. The project will be implemented over a period of 4 years starting in 1995.