Integrated Sustainable Rice System Development

Enhancing the productive capacity of smallholder farmers

COUNTRY/REC Liberia

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2019 - December 2020

PROJECT SITE Bong, Lofa

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Agriculture
2 FAO
3 GoJ 500,000.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 500,000.00 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 500,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

Enhancing the productive capacity of smallholder farmers

Project Objectives

Rehabilitating 50 hectares of lowland to produce rice primarily for consumption

Strengthen the underdeveloped value chain of rice covering infrastructure development, production as well as post-harvest development including milling, packaging and marketing

Project Outputs

Teaching lead farmers rice cultivation techniques

Creation of fish ponds at the upstream of water canals for irrigration

Project activities

Rice cultivation techniques (SRI)

Lowland development

Water management

Agricultural inputs

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Beneficiaries 1000
Indirect Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number

RICE Approach: Areas of contribution by the project

Resilience Industrialization Competitiveness Empowerment
R1: Area under irrigation
I1: Capacity of industrial mills
C1: Share of local rice
E1: Access to financial services
R2: Quantity of resilient seeds
I2: Mechanization ratio
C2: Quantity of high-yielding seeds
E2: Access to technical services

SIEM

Policy / Institutional Infrastructure Human Resource Capacity Provision of Equipments or services Knowledge / Research
Seed
Fertilizer
Irrigation / water management
On-farm technology transfer
Mechanization
Quality Improvement
Access to market
Access to credit
Overall policy tools

Crosscutting

Women

Youth

Nutrition

Climate Change

Food system

Contact (implementing partner)

CARD
Michael Cooper