London, December 19, 1994. A nine million dollar agricultural scheme designed to boost the grain harvests of Tibetan farmers and raise their standards of living, may have the reverse effect by turning independent farmers into landless labourers, say Tibet observers. The European Union (EU) project will threaten the centuries-old tradition of barter trading and create dependency on cash crops, fertilisers and expensive machinery, says the London-based monitoring service, Tibet Information Network. According to observers here, the project will cause a rapid shift from a subsistence economy to a cash-driven market economy in the Panam County, 124-miles south-west of the capital, Lhasa, resulting in the farmers falling prey to price shifts and inflation pressures in mainland China.