Overall objective

To contribute to poverty alleviation in 4 districts across Samangan, Ghor and Badakhshan provinces in Afghanistan through enabling rural small holder farmers to participate in local and higher value markets for selected horticulture.

Specific objectives

 To improve orchard farmer links to, and participation on priority horticultural markets

To improve orchard farmer access to support markets (technical assistance, credit)

 To improve orchard production techniques and management to increase the quantity / quality of marketable priority horticultural products

To improve general nursery standards on priority horticultural markets

To improve post harvest handling of priority horticultural sub sectors

Across 4 districts: 120 Smallholder farmers and their families (900 members)

Commercially viable solutions and interventions identified for 4 selected sub sectors in 4 target districts through value chain analysis

8 farmer groups (cooperatives / associations) with improved access to credit, TA, inputs and links to traders.

4 commercially viable demonstration orchards established with new cultivation methods and irrigation techniques

4 commercially viable nucleus nurseries established with variety of seeds/roots.

200 existing orchards rehabilitated in 4 districts across 120 communities.