YEMEN - AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT : IBB/ATC

A.I.D. will assign a long-term advisor to serve as co-director of the ATC and 9 others to provide assistance in the following areas: horticulture/apiculture; plant protection; animal production; soils and irrigation; agricultural economics/farm management; dairy production/food processing; farm mechanization; agronomy; and extension/rural sociology. Another 90 person-months will be provided in areas yet to be determined. Thirty participants will receive M.S. training abroad, and 12 potential ATC staff members will receive B.S. training. The ATC program will include courses in religion, Arabic, English, social sciences, physical education, chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, and in the disciplines mentioned above. The ATC will also offer short courses and/or inservice training for farmers and extension workers. A school farm will be developed to provide practical training in the major crops and livesotck of the area. The IBRD will finance the ATC"s physical faciltities, including 7 housing units for Yemeni teaching staff, and essential commodities for initiation of the program. Amendment of 4/25/85 initiates Phase II, extending the SP 6.25 years to complete the development of the Ibb Secondary Agricultural Institute (ISAI) and the training of Yemeni teaching staff for ISAI and two other SAI"s. New Mexico State University (NMSU) will implement Phase II, which will focus on transferring the ISAI model to SAI"s at Surdud and Sanaa and improving the Ministry of Education"s (MOE) ability to sustain the SAI system. U.S. academic training (B.S. or M.S.) will be provided to 39 potential SAI faculty and staff, and U.S. nonacademic training (60 person-months) to MOE agricultural education administrators. Also, 373 person-months of nonacademic training will be provided in-country to MOE personnel and to agricultural extensionists. Short-term specialists will assist SAI"s in curriculum refinement and teaching materials development, advise on financial planning and recruitment, and conduct feasibility studies on the need for additional SAI"s and for a more advanced Yemeni agricultural training institution; long-term advisors will serve primarily as SAI staff members, and will be gradually replaced by returned participants. Commodity support will include agricultural and laboratory equipment, library materials, and textbooks. (PD-AAR-015)