Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) Investment Project

To increase the adoption of new technologies and marketing practices by smallholder farmers through expanding and creating partnerships between smallholder farmers and agribusinesses in the Southern Corridor of Tanzania

COUNTRY/REC Tanzania

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2014 - December 2019

PROJECT SITE Igunga, Mbeya, Morogoro

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Office of the Prime Minister
2 UKAID
3 USAID
4 World Bank
5 SAGCOT Centre Limited (SCL)
6 Government of Tanzania
7 Royal Norwegian Embassy.

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 75,000,000.00 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 75,000,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

To increase the adoption of new technologies and marketing practices by smallholder farmers through expanding and creating partnerships between smallholder farmers and agribusinesses in the Southern Corridor of Tanzania

Project Objectives

Strengthening SAGCOT Support Institutions

Strengthening smallholder business linkages

Project Outputs

Support to the SAGCOT Secretariat

Support to the Kilimo Kwanza Catalytic Fund

Support to access to finance by MSMEs in agribusiness value chains

Project activities

Information and data provision

Support of investment planning and guidance

Government/private sector intermediation

Business enabling environment and investment promotion

Fund management

Matching grants

Project management and monitoring and evaluation

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 partner)

CARD