Component A: Rural Incomes Through Agricultural and Other Production Increased and Diversified
Component “A” of the RED-NEO Program aims to assist rural small businesses to upgrade their production and meet required production qualities and quantities. Under this component the project has conducted a thorough baseline assessment to identify business/farming upgrade needs at each community and designs its interventions based on the results of the latter. Interventions under component “A” include but are not limited to:
- Capacity building trainings for more than 60 cooperatives and lead farmers
- Technical assistance trainings for at least 3,000 farmers
- Promotion of horizontal and vertical cooperation in targeted value chains
- Improvement of access to extension services and quality inputs
- Improve access to quality repair services for agricultural machinery
- Establishment of more efficient varieties’ nurseries
- Cooperation with academia
- Cooperation with other development initiatives and partners
- Business networking, etc.