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Lesson
There is a need for closer ADB involvement in critical early stages and greater rigor in government reporting.

Project Number: 37046-013
Project Name: Agriculture Sector Program [Loan 2083-AFG]
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This validation concurs with these but notes that the lesson regarding policy reform failed to emphasize the need for all parties, particularly those at the provincial and district levels, to be fully committed to the reform agenda. Support for reform at the central level is not enough.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project [Loan 2017-UZB]
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While involving a number of government institutions and building their capacity is desirable for sustainability, enough resources should be provided for effective coordination.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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For water users' associations (WUAs) and other community-based organizations to be effective and sustainable, they should have a good source(s) of income and reasonable leverage to collect.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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The implementation period should be realistic, determined after a thorough analysis of activities and their inter-relations and sequence. As the design implementation period of the project was short, some targets, particularly those related to varietal development and testing, were ambitious.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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Field trial-cum-demonstration farms are effective in introducing improved technologies to farmers.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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In forming loan covenants regarding policy reforms, sector issues should be reviewed in total, as some reforms may be rendered ineffective by various distortions.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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It is important to provide suitable incentives to attract commercial seed growers, which is key to providing quality seed of new varieties to farmers, in addition to incentives for increasing the capacity of the breeding institutions to multiply high- quality foundation seed.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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Participating financial institutions (PFIs) should be selected more thoroughly keeping in view their relevant experience, geographic coverage, staff, and other resources.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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For agriculture enterprise development to be successful, sufficient lead time and necessary information and data should be provided, preferably through demonstration farms, for farmers to be convinced of what types of machinery and equipment to procure; subloan procedures should be simplified and the processing time shortened.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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Project management staff benefits should match with those of comparable private sector institutions to prevent high turnover that constrains project management.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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During project implementation, key project officers in ADB and the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources changed, contributing to delayed decision making and project implementation. A new project officer should take over the project administration and management with adequate time, and ADB should ensure that the previous project officer accompanies a new project officer on mission to ensure a seamless transition in project administration.

Project Number: 30458-013
Project Name: Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project
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The project completion mission noted that some farmers interviewed were unaware of their obligations to the government for on-farm rehabilitation cost recovery, despite having signed a repayment agreement with each water users' association and the government before rehabilitation works. This suggests that farmers had limited awareness of the cost-recovery requirements and that the farmers who were not willing to pay for rehabilitation might have been included in on-farm irrigation and drainage (I&D) systems.

Project Number: 30458-013
Project Name: Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project
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In general, something as substantial and sensitive as cotton and wheat (C&W) quota system reform cannot be completed within a short time frame and should be undertaken at the national level. Although the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources was responsible for implementing the C&W quota system, reform required inputs from other government departments. Such policy reforms are better accomplished through vehicles other than projects, and certainly not a single pilot investment project in one district or region.

Project Number: 30458-013
Project Name: Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project
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Except for special circumstances, such as when a pilot project is small or the executing agency is experienced in project implementation, the project design should be simplified to ease implementation. Generally, the focus should be on a single sector with a minimum number of types of measures. Although the project focused on rural development and agriculture, it comprised different measures (rural business strengthening, irrigation and drainage system enhancement, and cotton and wheat quota system reform) as a result of incorporating most of the challenges encountered in the sector.

Project Number: 30458-013
Project Name: Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project
Report Date: