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tambons will tend to reduce this disparity. Achievement of
this objective by the end of Project assumes that tiie
distribution of income will become no worse than it is
currently.
The Project will monitor and evaluate the
impact o± Project activities on the various local income
groups, and a special investigation will be conducted to
further define the causes of poverty in project 4reas. It
is expected that the Project's management, research and
extension techniques for conducting agricultural development
on an area basis will be replicated by the Ministry of
Agicultuxe outside the Project tambons and that such plans
will be under cons-ideration by the end of this Project. It
is planned that by the end of the Project the agricultural
development program in the Project tambons will be sustained
by the regular agricultural agencies.
It is not expected
that the rate of introduction of new ini.tiatives in the
Project areas will be maintained after w...thdr-..., of Project
suppcrts but that the system will be capable of both maintaining
the end-of-project status and imprV,ing it through
new initiatives
By the end of the Project the area-besed
farming syste'ms development program will have produced
useful results for the Project areas and be capable of both
further extension of more productive technology to other
similar areas and applying similar techniqe? to the site
specific problems of other areas. Conversely, those activities
in the Project that do not meet expeotations should at
least generate a useful number of "lessons learned" that
will help in deciding further directions for development.
End-of-project status will be verified by RTG
agricultural statist-cs, by comparison of preimplementation
and end-of-prcjact survey results and by Project reports,
site visits and evaluations.
d. Outputs/Inputs
The difficulties of making more than marginal
improvements in rainfed agriculture in the Northeast suggests
the development of site specific technolog- 3 to
encompass a varie.
of farm enterprise possibillt, -so The
diverse and lnhosp~table environment clearly benef-ts from
provision of a comprehensive series of inter-related Project