Program experience demonstrates that accompanying investment projects in a sector development program loan matter. ADB, in selecting the sector lending modality as a broad-based lending instrument, should give careful consideration to the choice of accompanying projects intrinsically linked with the sector performance in all its dimensions. In this instance, greater benefits could have accrued by linking research and extension to some of the allied institutions such as land tenure, land use, land distribution and classification, marketing, agricultural credit, more extensive extension training, and human resource development than to SMEs, which in the end focused substantially on nonagricultural activities.
Agriculture Sector Development Program