Posted on April, 4, 2016 at 10:09 am
Twenty thousand smallholder farmers from counties in central, the North Rift and Lower Eastern are set to reap benefits of structured grain and legumes trade aimed at boosting farm incomes, quality produce and reduced transaction costs. Once trained the farmers’ groups members will be issued with G-Soko credit cards to enable them buy inputs from accredited agro-dealers at discounted prices or on short-term credit while awaiting the selling of their warehoused crop.
Eastern Africa Grain Council programme manager Davine Minayo said part of the three-year project deliverables are to equip 50 village aggregation centres with grain handling tools, facilitate them supply to 30 milling firms through signing forward contracts, enable them acquire mobile threshing machines as well as train the staff on grading, standards as recently adopted across East Africab member states.
The council is working with Alliance for Green Revolution.
Other partners in the project are DFID funded, Foodtrade East & Southern Africa and Sweden International Development Agency and USAid.
Source: www.businessdailyafrica.com