WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/AG/N/HND/13
20 September 2002
(02-5044)
Committee on Agriculture Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
The attached notification concerning new or modified domestic support measures exempt
from reduction ( Table DS:2 ) was received from the delegation of Honduras  on 13 September 2002.G/AG/N/HND/13
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Table DS:2
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Honduras
Notification under Article 18.3 of the Agreement:
New or Modified Domestic Support Measures Exempt from Reduction
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1. Full title of the measure:  Rehabilitation programme for farm holdings affected by hurricane
Mitch (PROREMI) PHASES I AND II/SAG.
2. Domestic legislation reference: . Master Plan for National Reconstruction and
Transformation (PMRTN).
3. Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria:   Article 6(2) of the Agreement
on Agriculture: development programmes, (a) that are available to agriculture and to low-
income or resource-poor producers. The programme aims to rehabilitate farm holdings on the
banks of rivers and their tributaries and to reincorporate them into the production process.
Some 1,811 farmers benefited under Phase I and 2,563 under Phase II in the Departments of
Colón, Valle, Chouteca, Comayagua, Cortés , El Paraíso, Olancho, Francisco Morazán,
Atlántida and La Paz.
4. Cost of the measure: Phase I US$ 5.2 million
Phase II US$ 7.1 million
5. Date of entry into effect: Phase I 1999
Phase II 2000
6. Period of application: Phase I 1999-2000
Phase II 2000-2001
7. Products to principally benefit  (if any individual product):   The following areas of activity
were the ones that benefited: purchase of working equipment and implements, construction of
irrigation systems, land grading, restoration of plantations, fruit trees, African Palm and
pastureland, land purchases, reconstitution of animal populations (cattle, pigs).G/AG/N/HND/13
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Table DS:2
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Honduras
Notification under Article 18.3 of the Agreement:
New or Modified Domestic Support Measures Exempt from Reduction
__________________________________________________________________________________
1. Full title of the measure:   National construction and rehabilitation programme.
2. Domestic legislation reference: . Master Plan for National Reconstruction and
Transformation (PMRTN).
3. Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria:   Article 6(2): development
programme, (a) investment subsidies generally available to agriculture, (b) agricultural input
subsidies generally available to low-income or resource-poor producers. Efforts have been
geared toward rehabilitating farm holdings that can be salvaged, raising the rural population's
employment and income levels, boosting the output, productivity and competitiveness ofproduction sectors and improving production-related inter-institutional coordination.
4. Cost of the measure:   US$ 128.8 million
5. Date of entry into effect:   1999
6. Period of application:   1999-2000
7. Products to principally benefit  (if any individual product):   Facilitating agricultural
technology, funding for smallholders, constructing or reconstructing roads and bridges,
enriching the fauna and flora, clearing up land titles, developing irrigation and reviving the
cattle-rearing subsector.G/AG/N/HND/13
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Table DS:2
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Honduras
Notification under Article 18.3 of the Agreement:
New or Modified Domestic Support Measures Exempt from Reduction
__________________________________________________________________________________
1. Full title of the measure:  Revitalisation programme of areas affected by drought in Valle
Guayape, Olancho.
2. Domestic legislation reference: . Master Plan for National Reconstruction and
Transformation (PMRTN), Executive Decision No. 628-00.
3. Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria:   Article 6(2): development
programme, (a) investment subsidies which are generally available for agriculture, (b)
agricultural input subsidies generally available to low-income or resource-poor producers.The project is designed to expand the areas under irrigation by sinking wells and installing
motor pumps with a view to introducing crops of high commercial value as a production
alternative for farmers in the area, most of whom grow basic grains. Similarly, training,
technical assistance and credit will be provided for beneficiaries in the Departments of
Olancho, specifically in the municipalities of Juticalpa, San Francisco de la Paz, SanFrancisco de Becerra, Catacamas, Silca a nd Guarizama and the Rio Choluteca basin.
4. Cost of the measure:   US$ 2.01 million
5. Date of entry into effect:   1999
6. Period of application:   1999-2000
7. Products to principally benefit  (if any individual product):   Water melons, tomatoes, chile
peppers, bananas, fruit trees and hay pasture.G/AG/N/HND/13
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Table DS:2
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Honduras
Notification under Article 18.3 of the Agreement:
New or Modified Domestic Support Measures Exempt from Reduction
__________________________________________________________________________________
1. Full title of the measure:  Initiation and development of the National Sustainable Rural
Development Programme (PRONADERS/SAG).
2. Domestic legislation reference: . Master Plan for National Reconstruction and
Transformation (PMRTN), Agreement No. 1036-00.
3. Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria:   Article 6(2): development
programme, (a) investment subsidies generally available to agriculture, (b) agricultural inputsubsidies generally available to low-income or resource-poor producers. Technical and
financial capacity building so as to enhance the population's standard of living and optimise
resource potential through human, social environmental and production-oriented
development.
4. Cost of the measure:   US$ 0.674 million
5. Date of entry into effect:   2000
6. Period of application:   2000-2002
7. Products to principally benefit  (if any individual product):   Technical assistance, technical
advice, technical training and producing technical documents, studies and drawings.
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