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It is expected that Agricultural Exports and Rural Incomes (AERI ) objectives will lead to the following results by September 2007
. 30,000 small and medium farmers will benefit from the dissemination of improved production and post-harvest technologies
. The volume and value of exported horticultural products will increase five fold over the life of the project;
. Small scale dairy and livestock producers will increase their production by at least 50 percent over the life of the project;
. Trade associations will become sustainable through the provision of quality, fee-based services to their members (such as technology transfer, post-harvest handling, the dissemination of market information, and quality control guarantees), increases in their membership, and the implementation of export oriented policy advocacy programs; and,
. A minimum of 40,000 new on-farm jobs will be generated through improvements in the competitiveness of horticultural exports over the life of the project.
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