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PART I - RECOMMENDATiGNS, SUMMARY. ISSUES AND FINDINGS
A. Recommendatic-ns
It is recommended that a grant of $3.7 million of FAA
Section 103 funds be authorized for this Project and Loan of
$6.3 mlilion of FAA Section 103 funds be authorized in FY
1981. Loan terms are to be 40 years including 10 years
grace, 2% during grace, 3% thereafter,
The following wa.i.vers are requested.
1, 6361 waiver to procure sixteen locally manufactured
light motorcycles.
2. A proprietary procurement waiver for
jeeps.
four AMC CJ8
(These waivers are discussed in Part III D.)
B. Summary Description
This seven year Project will address the needs of the
rural poor in Northeast Thailand by establishing in 8 tambons
a replicable, ared-based agricultural. technology development
program for increasing producLivIty and farm incomes in
rainfed agricultural zones Total expected direct beneficiaries
are 65,000 persons
By the end of the Project, tue RTG should have adopted
an effective, tow-cost systematic process for analyzing and
resolving the key technical constraints to agricultural
production in rainfed areas and be prepared to extend the
system beyond the 8 tambons, CoTaponents of the process will
include the refinement, demonstration and extension of
improved farming practices tsubsistenceecash-crop cultural
husnandryi approtechnologies,
water utilization, animai
priate to rainfed areas; improvement ot the extension system
and its linkage to research; improvement of the land-water
resource base;
and the establishment of
an interactive means
of matching RTG technology development and programs and
resources with farmer's needs and problems