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B. PROGRESS IN OVERALL PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION
(1) AGRICULTURE PROJECT
Commercial Training Activity
• Twenty-eight (28) Task Orders were issued and signed in October for the training of 424
FBOs for Phase II Early. Cumulatively 142 Task Orders have been issued.
• About 21 000 farmers took part in the FBO Capacity Building Training organized for the
Phase II Early group and 14,000 took part for Phase I Late Training.
• All business plans for 424 FBOs in Phase II Early Stage I Training, have been finalized.
• Two hundred and eighty six (286) Business Plans for Phase I Late Trainees have been
prepared.
• Out of the 59 MoFA Staff trained under the Training of Trainers for Global GAP, 26 were
certified.
Irrigation Activity
• Inception Reports have been received from Messrs. SNC Lavalin, the Consultants for Lot 1
(Northern Agric Zone) and Lot 3 (Southern Horticultural Belt)
• Messrs Royal Haskoning, the Consultant for Lot 2 (Afram Basin) signed their Contract on
21st October. The Inception Report has been submitted and reviewed.
• About 1,000 ha of the remaining potential land are being designed by RICs under the Small
Scale Irrigation projects during Quarter 11.
• 4,234 ha out of the identified total land potential of 5,060 ha for Irrigation has been awarded
on Contract for the Technical Feasibility Studies, Design and Supervision of Rehabilitation/
Extension of Works.
Land Activity
The following are the achievements:
Pilot Land Title Registration:
• Fieldwork for all the six (6) Sections (total of 3,457 parcels) of the Pilot Registration
District (PRD) comprising inventory, pillaring and surveying have been completed as
follows:
i. Section 1: 760 Parcels (100% complete);
ii. Section 2: 718 Parcels (100% complete);
iii. Section 3: 915 Parcels (100% complete);
iv. Section 4: 267 Parcels (100% complete);
v. Section 5: 198 Parcels (100% complete); and
vi. Section 6: 599 Parcels (100% complete).
• Section 2 (711 parcels) and Section 5 (198 parcels) had Parcel Plans fully developed and
approved by the Survey and Mapping Division (SMD) of the Lands Commission and
ready for Title Certificates to be issued.
• 40% of Section 1; 20% of Section 3; 85% of Section 4; and 30% of Section 6 had their
Parcels Plans completed but yet to be approved by the SMD.
• 168 Title Certificates were ready to be handed over to Proprietors.
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