Smallholder Market-oriented Agriculture Project (SMAP)

MINORI/NAEB/RAB will work with counties and agricultural cooperatives to effectively promote agriculture using market-oriented agricultural extension packages to improve agricultural income for smallholder farmers in project-targeted associations nationwide.

COUNTRY/REC Rwanda

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD October 2014 - September 2019

PROJECT SITE Whole country

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
2 JICA 8,000,000.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 8,000,000.00 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 8,000,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

MINORI/NAEB/RAB will work with counties and agricultural cooperatives to effectively promote agriculture using market-oriented agricultural extension packages to improve agricultural income for smallholder farmers in project-targeted associations nationwide.

Project Objectives

Improve market orientation of rice growers

Enhancement of extension services

Project Outputs

Appropriate business implementation and management capabilities for nationwide dissemination activities using market-oriented agricultural dissemination packages by MINAGRI/NAEB/RAB

Smallholder farmers will be enable to practice market-oriented horticultural agriculture through extension activities by NAEB.

Project activities

Selection of target districts and cooperatives

Coop. management/Gender training

Marketing training

Cultivation training

Evaluation workshop

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