Overview

Main objective of the project:

By 2030, to produce, process and market, on an annual basis, through a dynamic, determined, competitive and creative network of community entrepreneurs, both male and female farmers, across the eight municipalities of the Mbomou Prefecture, significant quantities of horticultural products in order to combat food insecurity under better conditions, strengthen the efficiency of nutrient use through biological processes, and ultimately establish an environmentally friendly nutrient management strategy.

The project’s activities are:

Activity 1: Organisation of awareness-raising and community mobilisation campaigns.

Activity 2: Organisation of training sessions for male and female farmers, community-based agricultural operators and horticultural producers on soil fertility methods, procedures and techniques; agroecology; water management; integrated pest management; farmer field schools; record-keeping; the use of lime, compost and mulching; Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM); and the monitoring and evaluation of the use of organic matter, improved genetic materials and high-productivity tools.

The aim is to acquire the knowledge, abilities and skills required to develop entrepreneurs capable of investing in large-scale production, processing, transformation, marketing and product management through the development of a business culture.

Activity 3: Provision of equipment and resources to male and female entrepreneurial farmers integrated into dynamic, determined and competitive community networks. This includes equipment for cultivation activities, pre-germinated seeds, agricultural inputs, modern fertilisers and semi-industrial equipment for harvesting, handling, processing, packaging and transportation.

This also includes organic inputs and legume crop rotations, as well as the establishment of on-site facilities (plantations, depots and storage facilities), transport to processing units and local, national and international markets, and the construction of storage facilities and processing units.

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