TZ-Nat Ext Phase 2 SIL (FY97)

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The main objective of the National Agricultural Extension Project, Phase II is to continue to improve the delivery of extension services to smallholder farms for increasing their incomes and productivity, while also improving relevance, sustainability, and cost effectiveness. The project, which will be implemented in 16 regions of mainland Tanzania, will consist of four main components: (1) institutional strengthening of extension and field services as well as additional provision of equipment; (2) extension education and training, including: staff training, farmer training, training institutes, and training coordination; (3) communications support in the decentralization of information management to the Zonal level; and (4) pilot initiatives to improve extension management, technology transfer, inter-linkages between farmer-extension-research, participation of other providers in extensions delivery, seeds production and input supply, farmer empowerment, and gender impact.