duction and marketing. Access to loans for viable projects could
be arranged along with proper supervision. Adequate records of
all the farming activities could be kept, thereby monitoring, not
only the effectiveness (or otherwise) of the technical and other
directions given by the project, but also the farmers' responses to
them.
 The obvious, and not surprising, result of all these efforts is
that small groups of farmers in each country of the production
areas have developed new (or renewed) interest in farming. These
people have improved their skills, and their awareness of farming
as a business is growing. In the target areas, and gradually
extending beyond, new confidence is being generated in the rela-
tionship between farmer and extension agent. The fitness of
small scale farming as a means of providing reasonable rates of
return from investments in food production ventures is generally
being recognized. Of some significance also, is the growing in-

 TABLE 1. Primary Farmers.

 PRIMARY FARMERS

 PHASE I PHASE II
 Country Number Total Farm Number Total Farm Acreage
 Acreage
 Antigua 18 82 63 224
 Dominica 36 64 25 125
 *Grenada 36 86 23 90
 Montserrat 32 184 130 520
 St. Kitts/Nevis 25 41 56 51
 St. Lucia 11 25 19 56
 St. Vincent 15 65 32 178

 Totals 173 547 318 1247


*Remarks
Grenada (Phase II)
In addition two (2)
total membership of
of 48 acres.


Registered Cooperative Societies with a
twenty two (22) and total Farm Acreage


terest with which some government ministers and other senior of-
ficials are regarding the CARDATS operations in their countries
and the requests they make for the expansion of these operations.
 It is agreed that the CARDATS programs should be expanded
to achieve greater and more noticeable impact on the agricultural
economies of the countries involved. They must reach larger groups
of farmers. The first phase of the project, with its modest target
areas and confidence building processes, has now been succeeded
by a second phase which is presently exploiting all the accumulated
experiences, skills, and services to be found in the region so that
there will be meaningful small farmer development.
 To be effective, projects executed by external agencies which are
designed to service a large number of small farmers in the OECS
member states, must be integrated as closely as possible into the
general work programs of local Ministries of Agricultures. The syn-
chronism of CARDATS productive activities with planned patterns
of national and regional production, will undoubtedly favour the
fuller utilization of production resources held at all levels and
facilitate the contained development of desirable programs.

Farmer Training
 In a significant way the relatively small numbers of farmers dealt
with by CARDATS in each island was in accord with the nature of
the project itself. It facilitated the farmer training processes.
 The small food crop growers with whom CARDATS came into
contact in Phase I and II can be classified into the following major
groups:
 1. Group I-commercially oriented growers with secure land
 tenancies and interest in the production of food crops
 (mainly vegetables) for sale;
 2. Group II-subsistence farmers with more or less secure
 land tenancies interested in growing some cash crops and
 other crops for domestic consumption; and
 3. Group III-rural persons, many of them agricultural
 workers, interested in farming but with little or no farming
 experience and frequently with little access to farm land
 and agricultural credit.
 Some farmers in each category were found in all project coun-


TABLE 2. Secondary Farmers.


PROCEEDINGS of the CARIBBEAN FOOD CROPS SOCIETY-VOL. XX


 SECONDARY FARMERS



 PHASE I PHASE II

Country Number Total Farm Number Total Farm Acreage

 Acreage

Antigua 36 125 113 438

Dominica 9 22 26 77

Grenada 120 7 12

Montserrat 33 80 200

St.Kitts/Nevis 32 42 8 2

St. Lucia -- 6-

St. Vincent 62 260 100



Totals 292 460


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