The complex technology and pond installations needed to produce the hybrid seed barred the inexperienced rural grower from producing his own seed. Within 24 months, they would have to learn to produce their own seed fish, fatten, harvest, and either consume or market their products, and meet recurrent costs with no more than modest government extension support. The goal was self-sufficiency. To focus on integrated production activities. Each operation should enhance the efficiency and value of the others.
None stand alone.
To have multiple benefits for the rural poor. The program should improve their nutrition, provide them with some additional income, and inhibit some of them from migrating to urban areas for economic reasons. To design a simple, practical technology that is compatible with micro-environmental and local community conditions. If anything, the technology is intended to upgrade micro-ecologies by improving soils and by fomenting reforestation.