WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/AG/N/HND/31 
26 May 2010 
 (10-2908) 
Committee on Agriculture Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
  The following submission, dated 6 May 2010, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of Honduras .  The notification concerns new or modified domestic support measures 
exempt from reduction ( Table DS:2 ). G/AG/N/HND/31 
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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:   Surveillance of exotic diseases  
 
(2) Domestic legislation reference:   Poverty Reduction Strategy  
 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria: 
 
Paragraph 2(a) - Research services - of Annex 2 to the Agreement on Agriculture 
 
To safeguard the domestic livestock sector and prevent the introduction of diseases into the 
country, by collecting and sending as many samp les as possible to the reference laboratories 
in Guatemala and Panama for differe ntial diagnosis of exotic diseases. 
 
(4) Cost of measure:   US$2,340,000  
 (5) Date of entry into effect:   2007  
 (6) Period of application:   June 2007 - May 2008  
 
(7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product):   No individual product  
  G/AG/N/HND/31 
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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 to strengthen the Food Safety Department  
 
(2) Domestic legislation reference:   Poverty Reduction Strategy  
 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria: 
 
Paragraph 2(b) - Pest and disease control - of Annex 2 to the Agreement on Agriculture 
 
To strengthen the Food Safety Department (DIA ) of the National Agricultural Health Service 
(SENASA) by developing a country-wide inspection and laboratory diagnosis system to provide and guarantee food safety for domestic consumers and enable domestic agricultural 
production to integrate into world trade, addr essing sanitary and phytosanitary restrictions 
within a period of 18 months. 
 (4) Cost of measure:  US$8,710,000  
 (5) Date of entry into effect:  2007  
 
(6) Period of application:  June 2007 - May 2008  
 (7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product):  No individual product  
 G/AG/N/HND/31 
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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:   Integrated inter-institutional programme for the diversification of 
Honduran exports  
 (2) Domestic legislation reference:   Poverty Reduction Strategy  
 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria: 
 
Paragraph 2(c) - Training services - of Annex 2 to the Agreement on Agriculture 
 
To diversify and increase non-traditional ag ricultural production.  Starting in 2015, 
112,000 hectares of new crops will be added and 270,000 new jobs created. 
 
(4) Cost of measure:  US$3,970,000  
 (5) Date of entry into effect:  2007  
 (6) Period of application:  June 2007 - May 2008  
 
(7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product):  No individual product  
  G/AG/N/HND/31 
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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:   Improvement of the quality of life of families in rural communities 
through small community development projects  
 (2) Domestic legislation reference:   Poverty Reduction Strategy  
 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria: 
 
Paragraph 2(c) - Training services - of Annex 2 to the Agreement on Agriculture 
 
(a) To help families living in rural commun ities to improve their standard of living 
through better access to basic services and a better quality of life;  and 
 
(b) to contribute to the diversification of livestock production by supporting agricultural 
production and minor species programmes. 
 (4) Cost of measure:  US$1,490,000  
 
(5) Date of entry into effect:  2007  
 (6) Period of application:  June 2007 - May 2008  
 (7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product):  No individual product  
 G/AG/N/HND/31 
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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:   Development of a business m odel with small and medium-size 
producers to run the Comayagua Valley fruit and vegetable export plant  
 (2) Domestic legislation reference:   Poverty Reduction Strategy  
 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria: 
 
Paragraph 2(c) - Training services - of Annex 2 to the Agreement on Agriculture 
 
Technical training to develop a sustainable business model to run the hydrothermal treatment plant with the participation of Comaya gua Valley producers and agro-exporters. 
 
(4) Cost of measure:  US$1,290,000  
 (5) Date of entry into effect:  2007  
 (6) Period of application:  June 2007 - May 2008  
 
(7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product):  Fruit and vegetables  
  G/AG/N/HND/31 
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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:   Revival of the dairy sector through corporate restructuring and 
specialization of the country's dairy production units  
 (2) Domestic legislation reference:   Poverty Reduction Strategy  
 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria: 
 
Paragraph 2(d) - Extension and advisory services - of Annex 2 to the Agreement on 
Agriculture 
 
To create an agri-business dairy production and marketing model by establishing technical and financial cooperation links between the actor s of the dairy chain with a view to the 
corporate restructuring and specialization of  livestock production units and the development 
of infrastructure, thereby creating added valu e that should lead to increased production and 
productivity and help revive the dairy sector. 
 (4) Cost of measure:  US$6,760,000  
 
(5) Date of entry into effect:  2007  
 (6) Period of application:  June 2007 - May 2008  
 (7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product):  Dairy sector  
 G/AG/N/HND/31 
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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:   Strengthening of the production and agro-industrial components of 
agrarian reform for Honduran farmers  
 (2) Domestic legislation reference:   Poverty Reduction Strategy  
 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria: 
 
Paragraph 2(d) - Extension and advisory services - of Annex 2 to the Agreement on 
Agriculture 
 
To promote agriculture that focuses on agro -industrial opportunities through technical 
cooperation aimed at ensuring a decent income and employment for farming families without 
damaging the environment or acting cont rary to the purposes of the PRS. 
 (4) Cost of measure:  US$700,000  
 (5) Date of entry into effect:  2007  
 
(6) Period of application:  June 2007 - May 2008  
 (7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product):  No individual product  
  G/AG/N/HND/31 
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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:   Entrepreneurial approach to the development of bee-keeping in 
Honduras  
 (2) Domestic legislation reference:   Poverty Reduction Strategy  
 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria: 
 
Paragraph 2(d) - Extension and advisory services - of Annex 2 to the Agreement on 
Agriculture 
 
To introduce a dynamic process of sustainable technological development of production aimed at increasing production, productivity and the quality of the honey through a bee 
restocking process that would enable production un its to be modernized and would help to 
establish a business model for honey production for small producers. 
 (4) Cost of measure:  US$1,190,000  
 
(5) Date of entry into effect:  2007  
 (6) Period of application:  June 2007 - May 2008  
 (7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product):  No individual product  
 G/AG/N/HND/31 
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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 the transfer of technology to small producers in rural 
enterprises and organized individual pro ducers under the technology voucher project  
 (2) Domestic legislation reference:   Poverty Reduction Strategy  
 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria: 
 
Paragraph 2(f) - Marketing and promotion ser vices - of Annex 2 to the Agreement on 
Agriculture 
 
To contribute to increasing staple grain produc tion and productivity in the country by setting 
up a trust to promote the use of animal traction. 
 
(4) Cost of measure:  US$3,500,000  
 (5) Date of entry into effect:  2007  
 
(6) Period of application:  June 2007 - May 2008  
 (7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product):  Staple grain  
  G/AG/N/HND/31 
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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:   Technical, administrative and equipment support for the Honduran 
Association for the Production and Exportati on of Rambutan (AHPERAMBUTAN) to launch 
the marketing of the fresh fruit harvest in 2007-2008  
 (2) Domestic legislation reference:   Poverty Reduction Strategy  
 (3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria: 
 
Paragraph 2(f) - Marketing and promotion ser vices - of Annex 2 to the Agreement on 
Agriculture 
 
To develop an agri-business management mode l for the Rambutan p ackaging plant and to 
invest in market management to improve the marketing of the fruit. 
 (4) Cost of measure:  US$1,490,000  
 (5) Date of entry into effect:  2007  
 
(6) Period of application:  June 2007 - May 2008  
 (7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product):  Rambutan  
 G/AG/N/HND/31 
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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:   Establishment and management of a centre for the collection and 
processing of fruit and vegetables for mark eting in the department of Olancho  
 (2) Domestic legislation reference:   Poverty Reduction Strategy  
 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria: 
 
Paragraph 2(g) - Infrastructure services - of Annex 2 to the Agreement on Agriculture 
 
To provide producers from the west-central pa rt of the department of Olancho with 
infrastructure for collecting fruit and vegetables to enable them to provide a product that 
meets marketing standards. 
 
(4) Cost of measure:  US$1,990,000  
 (5) Date of entry into effect:  2007  
 
(6) Period of application:  June 2007 - May 2008  
 (7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product):  Fruit and vegetables  
  G/AG/N/HND/31 
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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:   Quimistán Valley Irrigation Project  
 
(2) Domestic legislation reference:   Poverty Reduction Strategy  
 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria: 
 
Investment subsidies generally available to agriculture - Article 6.2 of the Agreement on 
Agriculture 
 
To install irrigation facilities on 1,980 ha of la nd with high agricultural potential, benefiting 
200 producers in the Quimistán Valley. 
 
(4) Cost of measure:  US$15,970  
 (5) Date of entry into effect:  2007  
 (6) Period of application:  June 2007 - May 2008  
 
(7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product):  No individual product  
 G/AG/N/HND/31 
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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:   Irrigation Enhancement Project for the Western Comayagua Valley 
Micro-Watershed (PROMORCO)  
 (2) Domestic legislation reference:   Poverty Reduction Strategy  
 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria: 
 
Investment subsidies generally available to agriculture - Article 6.2 of the Agreement on 
Agriculture 
 
To raise income levels and ensure greater food security for 1,222 families and sustainable 
management of natural resources on 5,188 mz of land under irrigation in the Western 
Comayagua Valley.  The target population cons ists of small and medium-size producers who 
own less than 60 mz of land, are mainly involve d in agriculture, and live in agricultural areas. 
 (4) Cost of measure:  US$15,050  
 
(5) Date of entry into effect:  2007  
 (6) Period of application:  June 2007 - May 2008  
 (7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product):  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:   Setting up of a micro-refinery for palm oil  
 (2) Domestic legislation reference:   Poverty Reduction Strategy  
 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria: 
 
Investment subsidies generally available to agriculture - Article 6.2 of the Agreement on 
Agriculture 
 
To develop an oil refining industry with a capac ity of 5 MT per day, using raw materials from 
APROVA (Association of Producers from the Aguan Valley) producers, enabling them to 
access a better market at better prices. 
 (4) Cost of measure:  US$2,480,000  
 (5) Date of entry into effect:  2007  
 
(6) Period of application:  June 2007 - May 2008  
 (7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product):  Palm oil  
 G/AG/N/HND/31 
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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:   Supervised livestock module  
 
(2) Domestic legislation reference:   Poverty Reduction Strategy  
 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria: 
 
Investment subsidies generally available to agriculture - Article 6.2 of the Agreement on 
Agriculture 
 
To establish a permanent financial mechanism to provide in-kind credit to the country's small 
livestock breeders organized in Technological Ex change Centres (NITS), involving technical 
assistance, training and loans in kind. 
 
(4) Cost of measure:  US$15,000,000  
 (5) Date of entry into effect:  2007  
 
(6) Period of application:  June 2007 - May 2008  
 (7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product):  No individual product 
 
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