Supporting Agri-business growth and development through enhanced marketing systems

Contribute to increased household incomes, food security and growth of agribusiness enterprises (MSMEs) through enhancement of sustainable agribusiness industry that supports transformation to commercial agriculture and narrowing of Uganda's trade imbalance

COUNTRY/REC Uganda

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2016 - December 2019

PROJECT SITE Bugiri, Kabale

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 FAO
2 FAO 350,000.00
3 Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives (MTIC)

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 350,000.00 0 0
Grant 0 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 350,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

Contribute to increased household incomes, food security and growth of agribusiness enterprises (MSMEs) through enhancement of sustainable agribusiness industry that supports transformation to commercial agriculture and narrowing of Uganda's trade imbalance

Project Objectives

Sustainable production and productivity of agriculture, forestry and fisheries commodities for men, women and youth in targeted populationsincreased.

Project Outputs

Selected commodity value chains developed through establishment/strengthening of backward and forward linkages, and linked to support services

Increased production and productivity of selected value chains

Enhanced agro-processing and value addition

Selected agribusiness enterprises expanded

Increased gender equitable access to sustainable financial services

Gender equitable access to market information by value chain actors for trade promotion enhanced

Enhanced gender equitable access to regional and international markets

Project activities

Marketing

Value chain development

Enhancement of the processing sector

Increase of agribusiness enterprises

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Business-oriented farmer organizations, trainning of the VSLA methodology（supported FBS groups） 30
2 Information and Communication Technology equipment (Districts) 2
3 business-oriented farmer organization leaders 10
Indirect Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number

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

Project challenges

providing further support to the farmers’ groups that were formed, to ensure that they achieve sustainability and acquire the necessary quality standard certification for products

organizing more tailor-made training sessions in technologies related to seed production, especially for mushrooms

implementing projects to support strengthening of value addition initiatives that were implemented during this project

continuing the promotion of a culture of saving and effective loans utilization and management.

liaising with the supported cooperatives to ensure the acquisition of trucks for transporting, good storage facilities, branding, and quality standards certification for their products