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Farm Roads - the AMEPP programme

The programme is being implemented by the administrations of the relevant Dzongkhags in close collaboration with Regional Agriculture Marketing Services (RAMS), the Bhutan Development Finance Corporation Limited (BDFCL), and the communities concerned. The Farm-Road component of the programme has been so beneficial in improving community livelihoods that involved communities have now shown themselves willing to take full ownership, and with it, full responsibility for routine road maintenance activities.

The AMEPP programme focuses on the six most eastern Dzongkhags of Bhutan; Trashigang, Mongar, Lhuntsi, Trashi Yangtsi, Pema Gatshel and Samdrup Jonkhar. Under the AMEPP programme, SNV provides technical assistance across a range of areas; Environmentally Friendly Road Construction (EFRC), Community Mobilisation and Group Formation, Marketing and Enterprise Development, Participatory Planning, Dzongkhag Rural Access Planning (DRAP), Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation (PME), Dzongkhag Horticulture Development Planning, Community Based Natural Resource Management, Watershed Management, and support to Land Degradation Mapping and Land Use Management through the use of GIS.

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In the Spotlight: Uzurong-Trashigang

Uzorong geog is situated about 30km south of the Trashigang Dzong, and lies within the Trashigang Dzongkhag. The main cash crop of the area is potato. Other cash crops include citrus, ginger, garlic, and chilies. For years, residents have known that if there was a reliable way to get additional produce to the market in Samdrup Jongkhar, then supplementary income could be earned. However, in order to get their produce to market in saleable condition they desperately needed one thing: a Farm-Road!

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