Back on track

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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Date
2002
Language
en
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CTA. 2002. Back on track. Spore 102. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Permanent link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10568/47756
Internet URL: http://spore.cta.int/images/stories/pdf/old/spore102.pdf
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The island of Dominica in the Caribbean is constructing a new irrigation infrastructure for its banana sector. The t 16 million programme, like other EU-backed initiatives on the banana-producing Windward Islands, aims to reduce the impact of...
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The island of Dominica in the Caribbean is constructing a new irrigation infrastructure for its banana sector. The t 16 million programme, like other EU-backed initiatives on the banana-producing Windward Islands, aims to reduce the impact of drought and to raise production. The Dominica Banana Marketing Corporation is also administering a t 800,000 credit programme for farmers to buy inputs. The sector has suffered much from consecutive droughts and hurricane Lenny in 1999.
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CROP PRODUCTION AND PROTECTION;
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