Regions Targeted:
Singida
No. of farmers targeted :
32,000
Co-facilitator:
Faida Mali Singida
Project Tittle:
Enhancing systemic change in sunflower subsector for sustained actors’ income.
Project Goal:
A competitive and sustainable input and output sunflower market with increased production, productivity and incomes opportunities for smallholders (men, women, and youth) and SME processors for improved livelihoods in Singida regions.
Vision of Change and Intervention Activities:
- The intervention will lead to availability and accessibility of improved sunflower seeds.
- Access to different services such as extension, financial services, insurance services,
- Enabling environment and profitable markets
- Adoption of efficient processing technologies, business skills and other bundled services.
| Actors | Roles |
| Bytrade | Seed & GAP Training |
| Agro dealers | Hybrid Seed distribution from Seed Co. to SHFs |
| Litenga | Train Farmer Farming as Business |
| 33 Processors engaged | Purchase sunflower grains |
| ICRISAT | Pilot CSA solution to SHFs |
| Outassurance Brokers LTD | Pilot insurance product to SHF |
| AYEGRO | Provide soil test services to small holders farmers |
| Balton | Demonstrate herbicides to be used by SHF in sunflower sector |
| Hans | Demonstrate planters to use by SHF in sunflower sector |
| EFTA | Provide processing machines to processors |
| TPB and Vision Fund | Provide loan to both SHFs and SMEs processors. |
| Mt.Meru | Buy crude oil from SMEs processors |