Rice Value Chain Development

Increase, on a sustainable basis, the incomes and food security of poor rural households engaged in production, processing and marketing of rice and cassava in the targeted LGAs.

COUNTRY/REC Nigeria

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2014 - December 2019

PROJECT SITE Benue, Taraba, Niger, Ogun, Ebonyi, Anambra

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 IFAD
2 Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 0 0 0
Loan 74,400,000.00 100 74,400,000.00
Governmental 500,000.00 100 500,000.00
Other 0 0 0
Total 74,900,000.00 - 74,900,000.00
Project Goal

Increase, on a sustainable basis, the incomes and food security of poor rural households engaged in production, processing and marketing of rice and cassava in the targeted LGAs.

Project Objectives

Developing agricultural markets and increasing market access for smallholder farmers and small to medium-scale agro-processors

Enhancing smallholder productivity – and thus increasing the volume and quality of marketable produce – by strengthening farmers' organizations as well as supporting smallholder production.

Project Outputs

increase agricultural production of 15,000 SHFs

Strengthening capacity of 1680 processors

Strengthening capacity of 802 traders

Project activities

Agricultural market development.

Smallholder productivity enhancement

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