Competitive African Rice Initiative -Phase II

Smallholder farmers have increased their incomes and provide their families and the entire region with high-quality rice.

COUNTRY/REC Tanzania

PROJECT COVERAGE Multi-country

PROJECT PERIOD July 2018 - June 2021

PROJECT SITE Morogoro, Songwe, Shinyanga, Geita

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Agriculture
2 GIZ
3 Kilimo Trust
4 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 513,075.00 100 513,075.00
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 513,075.00 - 513,075.00
Project Goal

Smallholder farmers have increased their incomes and provide their families and the entire region with high-quality rice.

Project Objectives

Increased experience sharing amongst actors of the rice value chain

Sustainably improved inclusive business relationships

Improved access to financial services for actors of the rice value chain

Improved policy framework for rice value chain

Project activities

Production

Extension

Marketing

Finance

Technologies

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Beneficialy 36949
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

Contact (implementing agency)

CARD
Rachel Ajambo

Contact (implementing partner)

CARD
Florian Winckler