TROPICAL AGRIC DEVT

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The proposed project is envisaged as part of a long term program for intensifying agricultural production in Mexico's humid tropical areas. The project consists of three parts: (i) development of six pilot projects, of about 4,000 ha each, introducing technical packages for annual and perennial crops and livestock; (ii) improvement and expansion of agricultural and livestock extension programs in the humid tropics, with emphasis on the areas of influence of the pilot projects; and (iii) support for the tropical agricultural and livestock research programs. The technical, social, and administrative packages developed as a result of the project would be applicable to a wider area of about 660,000 ha having similar ecological and socio-economic conditions. The proposed pilot projects would directly benefit about 3,000 smallholders and cooperative farmers, the majority of which have incomes below the relative poverty level in Mexico.