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Excerpts: Through the Agency for International Development (AID), the Minister of Agriculture of Tanzania requested a five-man team to make a detailed study of one ranching association in the Masai District and prepare a livestock and range management program for this District which could also be used as a model for extending improved practices and production throughout the Masai District. In 1964 the Tanzanian Parliament passed the Range Development Act which was to provide the legal basis for increasing livestock production and improving land use on the 155,000 square miles of grazing land in Tanzania. In the same year the first range development area was established in Masailand and Komolonik – covering 220,000 acres near Monduli – was chosen for the pilot demonstration ranching association. The Masai Range Commission constructed and financed physical improvements on this land, but the association has not been registered yet because the Masai refuse to accept the budget for these improvements or the stock quotas presented by the Commission. The team was asked to evaluate this situation.