Country Profile Related to Rice: Madagascar
16. Issues/problems14. Implementing
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Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
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GH-6
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2. Title (Full name) 3. Project Location 4. Type of project 2
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May, 2005
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December, 2010
Poverty reduction and food security
To increase rice production and rice import substitution through enhanced access to high yielding upland rice varieties,
To contribute indirectly to HIV/AIDS and Malaria control producers (subsistent farmers), processors, traders, seed growers
14. Implementing agency
Technology transfer Production support Capacity building Project coordination
Scarce foreign exchange is saved.
About 20,000 mt of rice is produced.
Net income of upland rice growers is enhanced.
The role of private sector in marketing of locally grown rice is enhanced.
16. Issues/problems 15. Status of the project
12. Expected results (outputs)
Information Sheet of Rice Related Project/Program in CARD First Group Countries
1. Policy, 2. R & D, 3. Extension & Training, 4. Production, 5. Marketing 6. Post-harvest, 7. Irrigation, 8. Credit, 9. Seed, 10. Other ( specify below ) Ghana
NERICA Rice Dissemination Project
AfDB
USD 3,667,326
Positive impact on poverty reduction is made.
Tolon-Kumbungu District (Northern Region), Ejura-Sekyedumase District (Ashanti Region), Hohoe Municipality (Volta Region)
Absence of input support to farmers will limit the level of NERICA grain production.
awareness campaigns including HIV/AIDS/Malaria
Fertilizer & agrichemicals by MOFA counter fund. Farmers need to return.
Directorate of Crop Service, Ministry of Food and Agriculture in collaboration with WARDA
1. Grant, 2. Loan, 3. Technical Coop./Assistance, 4. National budget, 5. Private sector
GH-7
1. Country
2. Title (Full name)
3. Project Location Brong-Ahafo, Ashanti, Eastern, Western, Central Regions 4. Type of project 2
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11. Project component (activities)
AfDB
17/02/2004 UA 15 million
Information Sheet of Rice Related Project/Program in CARD First Group Countries
1. Policy, 2. R & D, 3. Extension & Training, 4. Production, 5. Marketing 6. Post-harvest, 7. Irrigation, 8. Credit, 9. Seed, 10. Other ( specify below ) Ghana
Inland Valleys Rice Development Project
1. Grant, 2. Loan, 3. Technical Coop./Assistance, 4. National budget, 5. Private sector
450 farmer groups is formed.
Capacity building
9,000 farmers (1,600 women) and 40 men and 150 women rice millers and traders are directly benefited.
60,000 mt (36,000 mt of good quality milled rice) is produced.
4,500 ha is developed within 25 inland valleys across 17 districts in 5 regions.
Adaptive research and surveys Project coordination
30/06/2009 (may postpone to June 2011)
To enhance food security, reduce importation of rice and increase incomes of small holder rice producers
To increase incomes of smallholder rice producers, rice traders and processors by increasing the production of good quality local rice
200 km feeder road is rehabilitated and 80 km access tracks is improved.
Smallholder rice producers, rice traders and processors
Credit for crop development Land management
financial controller
Interim management team (4 members) since end-June 2007 team leader & rice production specialist
post-harvest and marketing specialist water management engineer
Directorate of Crop Service, Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Delay of the implementation. A reconstituted project steering committee will provide policy guidance and direction for smooth implementation of the project.
GH-8
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3. Project Location Country-wide 4. Type of project 2
5. Field of support 3 7 10
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To increase crop production by having about 6,000 small-holder farmers cultivating an area of 2,590 ha under irrigation or improved water small-holder farmers
4 water conservation schemes of 40-120 ha and 12 micro-irrigation schemes of 2-24 ha are constructed.
15 small-scale irrigation scheme of 48-210 ha is constructed.
1. Grant, 2. Loan, 3. Technical Coop./Assistance, 4. National budget, 5. Private sector
Farmers organization
Information Sheet of Rice Related Project/Program in CARD First Group Countries
1. Policy, 2. R & D, 3. Extension & Training, 4. Production, 5. Marketing 6. Post-harvest, 7. Irrigation, 8. Credit, 9. Seed, 10. Other ( specify below ) Ghana
Small Scale Irrigation Development Project
Agriculture extension service June, 2009
Increase of farm household incomes and food security AfDB
UA 15 million
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10. Target beneficiaries
January, 2001
Training
Land Development 11. Project
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Farmers' support service
GIDA's efficiency and effectiveness are improved.
Irrigation Farmers' Associations are organized.
Ghana Irrigation Development Authority
Farmers, extension agents and project implementation staff are trained.
GH-9
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3 1. Pipeline, 2. Approved, 3. On-going, 4. Completed Increase of farm household incomes and food security
Ghana Irrigation Development Authority Training
Monitoring & evaluation Farmers organization BADEA
2 February, 2003 USD 9,500,000
14. Implementing agency
Information Sheet of Rice Related Project/Program in CARD First Group Countries
1. Policy, 2. R & D, 3. Extension & Training, 4. Production, 5. Marketing 6. Post-harvest, 7. Irrigation, 8. Credit, 9. Seed, 10. Other ( specify below ) Ghana
Small Farms Irrigation Project
To expand irrigable land by developing 11 small scale irrigation schemes covering 820 ha. Cropping intensity is expected to increase to 200 % and incremental crop production to be about 5,000 tone per year.
Land Development December, 2009
1. Grant, 2. Loan, 3. Technical Coop./Assistance, 4. National budget, 5. Private sector
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Small-holder farmers 10. Target
beneficiaries
Farmers and project extension staff will be trained and farmers will be mobilized and organized into associations.
Farmers' support service Agriculture extension service 11. Project
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3. Project Location Upper East, Upper West, Northern and Volta Regions
4. Type of project 1 2 2
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1. Grant, 2. Loan, 3. Technical Coop./Assistance, 4. National budget, 5. Private sector
1,000 players or 5,000 people are become involved in processing and marketing.
Information Sheet of Rice Related Project/Program in CARD First Group Countries
1. Policy, 2. R & D, 3. Extension & Training, 4. Production, 5. Marketing 6. Post-harvest, 7. Irrigation, 8. Credit, 9. Seed, 10. Other ( specify below ) Ghana
Rice Sector Support Project
Provide technical support to producers and improved technologies to processors
2014
Livelihood improvement of poor farmers of northern Ghana To develop rice production in 4 administrative regions
To enhance national organization of the rice sector through support to GRIB To implement some research activities in order to define cropping systems adapted to natural conditions of project area
2,500 farmers + 5,000 processors/marketers
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Reinforcing the capacity of GRIB to respond to the needs of its members Experiment no tillage and direct seeding in the ecology of lowland
Rice yield is expected to increase from 1.5 mt/ha to 4 mt/ha.
Facilitate access to credit for all activities along the rice value chain
Test new varieties of rice such as poly-aptitute ones developed in Brazil AFD
EUR 17.3 million (EUR 12.5 M loan + EUR 1.3 M grant + GoG + beneficiaries)
11. Project component (activities)
Land development to provide adapted infrastructure in lowland ares Build capacity of rice stakeholders to form farmer-based organizations Capacity building
10. Target beneficiaries
2008 (will start in April or May 2009)
6,500 ha of lowland is developed for rice production.
Delay of implementation
Directorate of Crop Service, Ministry of Food and Agriculture
GH-11
1. Country
2. Title (Full name)
3. Project Location Upper East, Upper West, Northern and Volta Regions 4. Type of project 1