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table 7.2
Progress in community Goal achievements in the Intensive study sites
as assessed in January 1999 and January 2000

January 1999 January 2000

Goals

Agrochemical use 1 1

Crop diseases 0 1 1 1

Distance to schools 0 0

Food shortage 1 1

Fuel shortage 0 0 0 0

Grabbing of public land 2 2

Ignorance 0 0

Illiteracy 1 1

Inadequate extension 2 3 2 2 3 2

Inadequate security 3 3 3 1 3 3 3 3 2 3

Lack of artificial insemination 0 0 0 0

Lack of market and shopping center 0 0

Lack of market for tea 1 2

Lack of nursery schools 0 0

Lack of organization and unity 1 1

Lack of secondary school and polytechnic 0 0

Low crop productivity 1 1

Low dairy productivity 1 1

Low-quality seeds 0 0

No telephones 0 0

Pests and diseases 0 0

Poor access road(s) 0 2 1 1 0 2 1 1

Poor health care system 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

Poor human health 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1

Poor leadership 1 1

Poor-quality feeds 1 1

Soil infertility and erosion 1 1 1 1

Substance abuse 0 0

Unemployment 0 0 0 0 0 0

Water not accessible 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 0

Water not potable 0 0

0, no progress; 1, slight progress; 2, moderate progress; 3, much progress