Agricultural institutional framework

This report provides results of that study. Technological, human, policy, and institutional constraints to agricultural development are identified and prioritized. It is determined that human constraints, in terms of the availability and expertise of personnel, are the most crucial. Options to respond to these problems are offered with the end of increasing production in cereals, livestock, oasis agriculture, and marine and inland fishing. Option A, the most optimistic, suggests an accelerated, centralized system for rural development which presupposes the establishment and integration of basic public sector structures. Option B, the most realistic, recommends regional or decentralized integrated development via local projects and assumes the gradual adaptation of rural structures to changing development needs. Option C, ultimately catastrophic, would be to continue current policies and thrusts. Whereas Options A and B are economically acceptable as long as certain assumptions regarding productivity, increased training at lower costs, and road improvements are met, Option C, it is predicted, will result only in high-cost limited growth or even stagnation in some sectors.