this project framed a multidimensional agricultural sector reform and was implemented between and as part of this move the state economic enterprises and producer cooperatives were decontrolled to varying degrees and at different speeds and became more exposed to market conditions another focus was on helping structural adjustment in agriculture through conversion to alternative production transition support land consolidation and rural development these new payments were introduced and applied during the life of arip but had gradually given place to productionlinked payments and were finally phased out some sources indicate a lack of familiarity with decoupled payments payment delays and other concerns which made the direct income support scheme unpopular among farmers wto while others characterised this evolution as a dilution of agricultural reform akder