FAO-EIS 6th QRM PPT - ZEAT-BEAD

Zonal Effort for Agricultural Transformation – Bahr El Ghazal Effort for Agricultural Development (ZEAT-BEAD). Quarterly Report: 2016 Quarter 1 of ZEAT – BEAD Project “Sustainable Agricultural Development through Strengthening Extension, Inputs Supply and Services” (EISS).

Nehru Essomba Bengono. FAO, 2016.

To enable rural producers in the greater Bahr el Ghazal to increase agricultural production and productivity, as well as agriculture-based incomes on an economically viable and environmentally sustainable basis by enhancing the capacity of agro-dealers and private service providers to timely and continuously deliver required inputs, equipment and services in good quality and at competitive prices.

20,000 households of rural subsistence producers: from subsistence to commercial agriculture. 1 000 producers’ groups: access to agricultural inputs through a coupon system combined to a cost-recovery mechanism. 400 CBEWs and 200 CBAHWs: trained based on harmonized curricula and technical standards. 100 blacksmiths: supported to repair agricultural equipment & production spare-parts. 90 community seed producers and 40 traders/agro-dealers: trained & supported to satisfy producers’ needs in agricultural inputs. Extension staff of the state line ministries: capacities strengthened to backstop CBEWs and CBAHWs