Yemen - Seeds and Agricultural Services

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The development objective of the Seeds and Agricultural Services Project is to improve agricultural productivity of rainfed and irrigated crops. Four components comprise the project: 1) promoting information media campaigns to encourage private operators to enter the seed and fertilizer subsectors, to increase farmers' use of quality seeds and fertilizers, and to build the capacity of the governmental agency implementing seed and fertilizer quality control; 2) seed sourcing and variety testing, and restructuring existing seed centers to commercialize and privatize their operations; 3) expanding input supply marketing channels to address the undersupply of inputs due to existing private sector oligopolies; and 4) establishing a project support unit to ensure proper and timely implementation of project procurement, disbursement, accounting and monitoring, and evaluation activities.