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olution to the problem and hence to start writing the project proposal for the constructing rural market success roads in 20 villages in Chunya District as a solution to a problem addressed.

4. Target Group
The project target group consists of smallholder farm families who rely upon agriculture production as their major source of food and income. These families tend to have fewer household members, few assets, small landholdings and low crop yields. They are generally food-insecure and rely on income from casual labour for about eight months of the year. Within the project target group, resource-poor farmers, women and women-headed households who face periodic food insecurity, will be expressly targeted through three specific intervention instruments:

(a) Economic criteria. The target group in each scheme will have, on average, not more than 2 ha of cultivable land, as against the national average of 5.0 ha. In addition, seventy-five per cent of the beneficiaries will have an income below the poverty line.

(b) Specific targeting criteria. Each scheme must ensure that at least 30% of the total beneficiaries and 50% of the irrigation management committee members are women. In new irrigation schemes, where some additional land may be brought under cultivation, preference will be given to landless women, to whom a minimum of 25% will be distributed and

(c) Self targeting investments. Support will be given to groups or associations willing to be involved in high-value cash crops, such as rice and vegetables, etc., to ensure the programme's overall viability.

Appendix I shows the criteria used to define the target groups, the major constraints faced by them as indicated in the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) exercise and the intervention measures proposed to alleviate them. A total of 15 700 will benefit from the programme.

TARGET GROUP DEFINITION, SELECTION CRITERIA, MAJOR
CONSTRAINTS AND PROJECT INTERVENTIONS
Target Group
Selection Criteria
Major Constraints
Project Instruments
Smallholder
families:
Resource-poor
farmers
(priority target
group)

a)Farm size < 2 ha

b)No work oxen

c)Food deficit

households

d) Farm incomes below

the national poverty

line (TZS a€|., 199x

prices)

e) Off-farm income

Low crop production and low

farm incomes

¡¤ Food insecurity

¡¤ Lack of farm inputs and credit

Improved agricultural extension services aimed at increasing market awareness training.

¡¤ Increased food production through farmer training in improved crop husbandry practices and access to better produce storage methods.

¡¤ Assistance with the formation of savings groups

Poor-women and
women-headed
households (FHHs)
priority target
groups
Low crop production and low

incomes

¡¤ Food insecurity

¡¤ Lack of farm inputs and credit

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