This Credit of US$5 million was aLearning and Innovation Loan ( LIL ) --implemented1999-2003 -- whose objective was to contribute torevitalizing the country's agricultural and ruraleconomy by identifying policies and institutional mechanismsto promote efficient, private sector-based localagricultural input distribution and out put marketingsystems in order to raise modern farm input use amongfarmers and thereby the productivity of labor and levels ofincome in the rural sector. The project was implemented in20 districts, representing about 25 percent of the totalnumber of districts.It affected 21,00 farm families, witha population of 1.05 million, including about 1,000 leadfarmers and 1,000 Farmers'Associations.