MR-Iirrigated Agr Integr Dev APL (FY00)

APL PRINCIPAL OBJECTIVE: Alleviate poverty of the rural population living in the Senegal River Valley by increasing agriculture value-added, income and employment through efficient and sustainable use of the country's most precious natural assets: scarce water and arable land.APL SECONDARY TARGETS: (i) Generate employment and income upstream and downstream of agricultural production (input supply, creation and maintenance of infrastructures, equipment repair and maintenance, processing, transportation and marketing of produce and exports); (ii) provide consumers with new agricultural products (fruits, vegetables, oil seeds, etc.) from the Valley to replace hitherto costly imported products; (iii) improve the balance of trade through a reduction in agricultural imports and the development of exports; (iv) create rural employment and incomes, reduce rural migration toward urban centers and eliminate the unemployment and social problems it causes.PHASE-ONE OBJECTIVES: Lay the foundations for an efficient and sustainable development of irrigated agriculture in technical, financial, environmental and socio-economic terms.