TRANSMIG. II

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The Second Transmigration Project will launch a land development program along the Trans-Sumatera highway by resettling about 30,000 families from impoverished areas of Java and Bali, as well as from Sumatera, on four sites in the province of Jambi in Sumatera. It will also upgrade the conditions of 4,000 transmigrant families who were recently settled in the same area. The project will provide physical infrastructure, land clearing, agricultural inputs and services, community facilities and technical assistance. The project will create 30,000 new farms, open up upland food crop production on 36,000 ha and increase crop production and another 4,800 ha, directly benefitting some 34,000 farm families or 170,000 people. At full project development, per capita farm income is estimated at $125 compared with incomes of potential transmigrants and existing settlers of about $35.