G/AG/N/HND/46  
9 January  2018 
(18-0185)  Page: 1/4 
Committee on Agriculture  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated 22 December  2017, is being c irculated at the request of 
the delegation of  Honduras . The notification concerns new or modified domestic support 
measures exempt from reduction (Table  DS:2). 
 
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  Table DS:2  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT : HONDURAS  
Notification under Article 18.3 of the Agreement:  
New or Mod ified Domestic Support Measures  Exempt from Reduction  
 
 
(1) FULL TITLE OF MEASURE:  
Jamastr án Valley agricultural irrigation development project  
 
(2) DOMESTIC LEGISLATION REFERENCE:  
Poverty Reduction Strategy  
 
(3) DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF MEASURE WITH REFERENCE TO CRITERIA, I.E. THOSE 
IN: 
Paragraph 2(g) – Infrastructure services – of Annex 2 to the Agreement on Agriculture.  
 
The project seeks to  modernize and increase the efficiency of agriculture in 
the Jamastrá n Valley in order to improve producers' incomes and contribute to food 
security ; and to improve the standard of living of the rural population through the 
construction of irrigation modules with pumping stations to irrigat e 3,726 hectares . 
The Jamastrán  Valley is situated in the central -eastern part of the country, some 22  km 
from th e city of Danlí, between latitudes 14°  00' 23" to 14°  04' 23" and 
longitudes  86° 20' 29" to 86°  59' 12". It has a surface area of 19,696 hectares and 
encompasses over 60 % of the catchment area of the municipality of Danlí.  
 
(4) COST OF MEASURE:  
US$615,408.92  
 
(5) DATE OF ENTRY INTO EFFECT:  
First half of 2016 . 
 
(6) PERIOD OF APPLICATION:  
1 January 2 016 to 3 1 December 2 018. 
 
(7) PRODUCTS TO PRINCIPALLY BENEFIT:  
 No individual product.  
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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 MEASURE:  
Project for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development in the South -Western Border 
Region (PROLENCA)  
 
(2) DOMESTIC LEGISLATION REFERENCE:  
Prolenca Agreement  No. I -899-HN, signed on 15 April 2 016, Amendment published in 
Official Journal ( Gaceta ) No. 34173 of 2 9 October 2 016. 
 
(3) DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF MEASURE WITH REFERENCE TO CRITERIA, I.E. THOSE 
IN: 
Paragraph 2(d) – Extension and advisory services – of Annex 2 to the Agreement on 
Agriculture . 
 
The project covers:  
a. small agricultural producers with limited access to productive resources and differ ing 
levels of organization and market linkage;  
b. rural artisans with an  incipient  level of organization and poor market linkage ; and 
c. rural micro -entrepreneurs and small -scale traders . The project will pay special attention  
to vulnerable groups such as women, young people and indigenous groups . The indirect 
beneficiaries will be other members of the poor rural population lacking in road and 
social infrastructure.  
The population considered to be direct beneficiaries of the project will comprise 11,000 poor 
rural families located in 36 municipalities in the departments of Lempira, La Paz and 
Intibucá, and will als o include 826 rural families from 11 municipalities in the  departments of 
Atlántida, Corté s and Santa Barbará, corresponding to the Northern Horizons project (the 
total number of beneficiaries being estimated at 33,000 families/264,000 individuals), wh ich 
are associated with legally  constituted rural organizations . The project will also focus special 
attention on the rural population segment made up of young women, single mothers, 
unemployed young people and ethnic groups without access to productive resour ces, which 
is often excluded from productive activities owing to their lack of agricultural production 
units, by getting them involved in the aforementioned organizations , which  will develop  
non-agricultural processing and product marketing activities, loc al savings and credit 
schemes, and other types of rural micro -enterprise as yet to be identified . The 
Northern  Horizons families belong to:  
i. producer groups in the areas of coffee, cacao, staple grains, poultry farming and 
aquaculture ; and 
ii. organized women p roducing natural -fibre (reed and tule) craft items.  
 
(4) COST OF MEASURE:  
US$23.48  million  G/AG/N/HND/46  
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  (5) DATE OF ENTRY INTO EFFECT:  
15 April 2 016 
 
(6) PERIOD OF APPLICATION:  
15 April 2 016 to 3 1 March 2 020 (as per amendment to the loan agreement) . 
 
(7) PRODUCTS TO PRINCIPALLY BENEFIT:  
No individual product.  
 
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