Addis Ababa, June 12, 2021 (FBC) – Ministry of
Agriculture and Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) have lunched 10
million USD rural agricultural chain improvement project through linking
smallholder farmers with rural transformation center.
According to EPA, the project would be implemented
for five years (2021-2025) with the aim of reinforcing the agriculture value
chain in Amhara state and accelerating rural economy.
The project, hence, would benefit farmers hail from
east Gojam Zone, Motta Rural Transformation Center (RTC) and surrounding 6
woredas namely Huletu eji enesy, Sede, Enebeseser midir, Enargi enawega,
Goncha and Biwugn.
The role of the project is linking small holder
farmers with industries housed under Bure Integrated Agro-Industrial Park and
its subsidiary aggregation facility Motta Rural Transformation
Center (RTC).
The release stated that the key aim of the project
is to form a consistent supply of raw material to the industries from
smallholder framers and further support the development of the Agro industry
sector.
The project works on improving operational capacity
of Motta Rural Transformation Center’s (RTC), enhancing
capacity of farmer’s Unions and Cooperatives target Unions managements and
their agriculture products storage and distribution and reducing post-harvest
lost at small holder framers and framers’ cooperative level, the release noted.
“The project with its three key components, the
first one being supporting the capacity building of Post- Harvest Management
(PHM) in the target area with the budget of 1.5 million USD.”
According to the release, this component would
support the publishing of PHM manual for targeting products like maize, wheat,
arley, honey, and Milik and providing capacity building training for
stakeholders and works in related technology promotion in the area.
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