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To achieve these tasks the development projects are aplanned and
implemented by three departments:
Department 1 : Agriculture, Health and Rural Development
Department 2: Science and Technology, Education, Vocational
Training, Industry and Trade
Department 3: infrastructure
Agriculture, Health and Rural Development
The promotion and development of rural areas has always been a top
priority in German development cooperation with developing countries.
The activities of the Departmentof Agriculture, Health and Rural
Development are therefore determined by the following goals:
• to raise and diversify production in agriculture, forestry and
fisheries
• to create more jobs by promoting the agricultural structure,
• to improve storage, distribution, marketing, and processing of
agricultural products
• to establish appropriate production, credit, and marketing
organizations,
• to intensify agricultural research and technology,
• to improve living conditions by supporting health, nutrition,
and family planning programs
The department cooperates closely with national and international
research institutions and organizations in its research and development
activities.
Publications
Experience gained in gtz projects is available to a wide circle of
readers in gtz publications.
The GTZ series of publications can be obtained directly from the
GTZ-Verlagsgesellschaft mgH, Bruchwiesenweg 19, D-6101 RoBdorf
1.
Telefon: Your code for Germany, then 6154-81119, against payment
of the stipulated price, plus postage.
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