Cameroon project 631-0023 · 1991 · agriculture · Development Assistance Corp.

Presents final report on the North Cameroon Seed Multiplication Project II, by Development Assistance Corporation (DAC), the TA contractor from 1982-1991. The project, along with its predecessor, 6310001 (which began in 1976), presents a case study of agricultural development over a period scanning two decades. During this period, a technically sound idea has been reconfigured to fit successive waves of thought on how a new technology could best serve the local population. Over $27 million in USAID and Government of Cameroon (GOC) funds have been spent on that technology: the multiplication of improved seed of important staple crops in the North and extreme North Provinces. The project has produced 250-300 tons of improved seed, and at its close, was serving over 500,000 families. Accomplishments include impressive production yields; mechanization of farm activities; establishment of an equipment maintenance and repair workshop; and finally, the privatization of seed production -- which will enable the project to sustain its achievements. The project succeeded because it has been focused. It has a tangible, quantifiable product (improved seed) which fulfills an agronomic const

Source: DEC abstract, PD-ABD-689 (1991). The source's own text.