11. Encourage more young people into tree crops agriculture

 12. Assist in finding markets for existing crops and

 introduce new crops for existing markets.

 13. reduce the serious rural to urban drift.

 14. Strengthen community organizations, such as Jamaica

 Agricultural Society Branches, Jamaica 4H Clubs, HEART

 Trust, Churches and youth groups.

 15. Increase the wealth of participants by encouraging

 savings generation from increased production to be

 used for future farm development.

 16. Give more prosperous image to agriculture.

HAP has funded 22 Sub-project (Table 1. Column 1) at a total cost

of $70,418,830.91 (Table 1 Column 2) to benefit 10,156 farmers

(Table: 1 Column 3 on 8,052 acres of land (Table: 1 Column 4). In

doing this we have planted and resuscitated 2,520,613 plants

(Table: 2). The present status of these Sub-projects are given in

Table 3. We presently benefit 175 communities in Jamaica with a

population of nearly 45,000 people. About 30,000 other farmers

will benefit through extension effect. We have revived about 37

Jamaica Agricultural Society Branches, and 6 4H Clubs. We have

established 4 Farm Supply Stores, strengthened 3 cooperatives

(Frankfield, Chapleton, Richmond) and are assisting 3 others. We

established two revolving loan funds at Frankfield and Mangrove

(St. Catherine) and hope to launch others at Richmond and Chapleton

soon.