Overall objectives: to contribute to alleviate the rural poverty through the development of fruit networks. (to increase population incomes, to extend economical exchanges and trades, to shift from a subsistence economy to a growing market economy)

The fruit growers, individually at the level of their farms or collectively at the level of their economic interest groups. (and their families)

The fruit trees producers, (nursery)

The fruit marketing actors: the local traders, small and big shopkeepers, carriers and all fruit network contractors.

About 1 350 farmers should be trained and supported to have developed horticulture system.

200 000 healthy and good varieties saplings of fruit trees produced from 40 trees nursery growers.

200 ha of orchards covered by 100 000 trees distributed to 1 000 farmers. 

Setting up of 10 fruit farmers’ organizations.

processing units settled. (6 T quality dried apricots produced)

200 existing orchards (50 000 trees) being technically improved. 

Drip (piping) irrigation system being introduced and adopted.

Quality fruit being produced. (estimated 12 600 T by year 2012)

Increased capacities of SAB & Government staff

Studies completed (fruit & packing)

To train farmers and provide them quality fruit trees saplings.

To develop and ameliorate existing orchards.

To train masters in grafting and pruning.

To introduce drip irrigation system in demonstration orchards

To improve the existing nurseries.

To create new nurseries according to skills standards.

To help (new or existing) fruit growers association to be organized, and part of the fruit network.    

To train some farmers in apricot drying and establish drying units.