Promoting sustainable increase in rice production and productivity of small and medium scale farmers through PPP

COUNTRY/REC Ghana

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2016 - December 2017

PROJECT SITE Volta

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA)
2 Prairie Volta Limited
3 FAO

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 380,000.00 0 0
Grant 0 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 380,000.00 - 0

Project Objectives

Promoting youth employment and skills development

Enhancing the use of improved technology by small holder farmers

Project Outputs

Institutional capacity and business model built

Improved rice production technology adopted

Project activities

Development of a unique business model

Development of training manuals

Training and capacity building of 500 small holder farmers, 25 graduates and 10 Agricultural Extension Assistants in modern rice productions using the ultra-modern facilities of PVL

Provision of IT equipment, safety gears, agricultural tools and 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