SUD-AGRIC. COTTON I

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The First Mali-Sud Agriculture Development Project's objectives will be: expanding cotton, maize, rice and kenaf production mainly through the intensification of improved cultivation methods; providing project farmers with technical advice, seed multiplication facilities applied research and credit; improving animal husbandry of cotton farmers; expanding cotton processing facilities, improvement of kenaf settling ponds, construction of a rice mill, provision of storage for inputs procurement of vehicles for CHDT and improvement of agricultural tracks; undertaking studies for the future development of the areas freed from onchocerciasis; improving the rural health services in the area; and training of CHDT staff, and of the rural population through young farmers and blacksmith's training and a functional literacy program.