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Credit and Cooperative Specialist-assisted in the functional implementation of a medium term credit program determined appropriate local organization for credit, savings, and cooperative-type functions assisted in the creation of mechanisms that would encourage membership and participation in “groupements communitaires” studied and analyzed informal credit systems to determine whether or how non-institutional credit could be made to better serve needs of small farmers assisted in determining qualifications and manpower needs for ORD credit programs.Agriculture Marketing Specialist-conducted applied research on traditional and modernizing marketing practices advised ORD on the provision of inputs to farmers and the marketing of cash and staple food crop farm output devised and established market information and statistics collection systems including training Voltaic personnel contributed to design and location planning for improvements in road transportation and farm market centers, storage, handling, and processing facilities for crops and livestock production.Agricultural Economics (Farm Management Specialist-conducted studies on the, costs and returns of current production practices and alternative technical packages in the four sectors of the ORD developed methodology for a permanent "minimum necessary" information/data gathering system advised, assisted, and coordinated the economics aspects of varietal field trials and demonstrations prepared recommendations and proposals for other ORD offices assisted in determining possibilities for the local production of the inputs to a more complex production technology.Project Plans/Objectives: By providing advisory services, specialists performed a number of activities: capacity of the ORD to deliver a broad range of services required to increase production as well as to improve the quality of life in the region. Project Goal: To assist in the Eastern Regional Development Organization (ORD) in Upper Volta to increase agricultural production and to assist in improving the. Project Name: Integrated Rural Development Project (Eastern ORD) Upper Volta *ĭonor: United States Agency for International DevelopmentĬontract No: AID/afr-C-1314 Project # 6860201 Non-AFRE Co-Principle Investigators: Other AEC/AFRE Visiting Faculty David Wilcock, Jim Bingen, Peter Matlon, Tom Zalla, Tom Stickley, Vince Barrett, Greg Lassiter, and Assafa Mehretu (Geography)