Economic Recovery of Liberian rice farmers in Ebola affected counties

COUNTRY/REC Liberia

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2016 - December 2018

PROJECT SITE Bomi, Grand Bassa, Grand Cape Mount, Lofa, Montserrado

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Agriculture
2 IFAD 100,000.00
3 Community of Hope for Agriculture Project
4 GoJ 2,000,000.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 2,100,000.00 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 2,100,000.00 - 0

Project Objectives

To complement support provided to Ebola affected communities involved in rice production

Building sustainable farming practices by improving farmers production through the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)

Increase the farmers’ income

Expand the cycle of rice production and processing

Project Outputs

Introducing SRI to farmers

Dissemiating agricultural inputs (seeds, fertilizers, pesticides)

Developing educational materials of rice cultivation techniques

Introducing small scale mechanization (small size power tillers, milling machines, threshers, weeders)

Project activities

Rice culitivation techniques (SRI)

Lowland development

Agricultural inputs

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