Do you want to add value to a raw product by taking it to the next stage of production? This project “Adding Value to Agricultural Products” will help you surely. Farmers are responsible for all crops and livestock that are needed for us to survive. Without food, the world would slowly die, and farmers work hard every day to keep plenty of crops and animal products in the market to keep that from happening. This project will mainly focus on the key population aged 18 plus with in Lwamaggwa Sub-County and the surrounding communities. The project will cover 400 people and they must be farmers aged 18 and above. The overall objective of the project is to add value to the agricultural product. This sample proposal is mainly natured to construct a model produce store in Lwamaggwa purposely for farmers who truly depend on Agriculture as their income generating activity, grouping of the beneficiaries in order to train them to work for a common goal for the betterment of each individual.
Problem Statement
Farmers in XXXXXXXXX who take care of all activities ranging from clearing the land, preparing the seedlings, planting, weeding, spraying harvesting and maintaining the farm produce such that they can sell and gain from their activities sell their products on cheap prices due to early selling and less external market to take the products. Approximately 60% of the farmers end up selling their product unexpectedly and on a low price due to price fluctuation and luck of where to keep their products until when the demand is high. Such cases have been increased to lower the prices of farm products as the farmers rush to sell such that they can earn a living however, little the price it is. This has made some of the farmers to give up on farmers and other to reduce on the size of the farmers they operate.
If something is not done to improve the status of farmers, food production will be reduced in the areas hence less earning and poor standards of living in the community. In the year that ended (2017), a group of farmers decided to quit farming after toiling in the drought to produce maize and beans which were later sold cheaply and could not sustain their needs/target. The reason for their quite was avoid situations, like lack of markets and price fluctuation in the area where by even the money invested in the farming activities was from one of the loan giving organizations of which was to be paid back.
Problem Justification
Farmers in XXXXXXXXX at the age of 18 take the biggest part as the key population aging from 18 years plus. They depend on farming as their key activity of income generating whereby they earn a living in terms of getting money for school fees, medication, family needs and good for survival. According to the research made by XXXXXXX Agri-business Network.80% of the population in the community depends on farming and only 20% of the population do other incoming generating activities. Due to lack of storage facilities where to keep their harvest to wart for high demands in market, farmers sell off their products to cheap buyer hence earning little compared to what they would have got from their products. We are targeting 400 people (direct beneficiaries) who are going to be models to the community in terms of storage facilities for the farm produce sore.
In addition to the above, it has been observed that farmers have always outnumbered other groups in the community meetings and as such Agri-business Network looks forward to ensure that this commitment is enhanced and channelled towards the right direction for the purpose of community development. This group needs to be enlightened to work towards their own development, be able to sell their products in good markets and at a higher price to improve their standards of living through health, education and development as well.
The project purpose:
Goal and Objectives: The overall objective of the project is to add value to agricultural products.
Specific objectives:
- To have a model produce store for XXXXXX farmers.
- To promote team work for the betterment of each individual.
- To find provide proper and right market for the products of farmers in XXXXXXX both external and internal.
Scope of the project:
This project will mainly focus on the key population aged 18 plus with in XXXXXXX Sub-County and the surrounding communities.
The project will cover 400 people and they must be farmers aged 18 and above.
Description of the beneficiaries:
400 direct beneficiaries are going to be involved in this project. They must be farmers who truly depend on farming as their income generating activity and well known by the local leaders in the community of XXXXXXXX and the surrounding area.
Nature of the project:
The project is mainly natured to construct a model produce store in XXXXX purposely for farmers who truly depend on Agriculture as their income generating activity, grouping of the beneficiaries in order to train them to work for a common goal for the betterment of each individual (in a team of 20 people per group) and creating / find the right market for he produced farm products with a good buying price that can sustain the farmers and produce profit for them.
Each group will be a signed a tool of creating up a model produce store to keep their harvest until when the reliable and ready market is available to buy them. Furthermore, Agri-business Network will work with a group of experienced and successful farmers to extend skills to the selected beneficiaries a period of two months and the a assignments will be given to them to create model produce stores in their groups and he successful groups will receive a grant of 1,000,000 per group to be empowered.
Agri-business Network will continue with the supervision and field visits to make sure that all the planned activities are fully completed until the end of the project life span. All beneficiaries should engage their family members to ensure proper project sustainability.
Finally, network marketing will be commenced to find market for the farm produce.
Selection of the beneficiaries:
- The selection of beneficiaries will be conducted by the Agri-business Network group, local leaders and Religious leaders.
- The beneficiaries must be farmers in nature and they truly depend on farming as their income generating activities.
Specific Objectives
- To have a model produce store for XXXXXXXXX farmers.
- To promote team work for the betterment of each individual. To find and provide proper and right market for the products of farmers in XXXXXX both external and internal
Project Launch and Execution
Below are the activities for the project execution;
- Meeting with the farmers to brief them on the projects objectivities and activities.
- Identifying members from the farmers with the required skills for the project.
- Identification of the 400 beneficiaries with the support of the local leaders and religious leaders. These must be farmers that are solely depending on farming as their income generating activity.
- Conducting of a two day interactive and practical workshops to extend required skills for the project.
- Forming 20 groups of 20 members basing on the community they come from through which members will create and start sub produce model stores in their areas.
- Support the group members to select their group leaders who will act as coordinators between their groups and Agri-business Network.
- Monthly monitoring of the performance for these produces stores of each group.
- Screening of the group’s transparency, leadership and performance of the skills acquired through the interactive training and appraisal by the project facilitators under Agri-business Network supervision.
- Provision of grant of 1,000,000 to each of the successful group to empower their sub-produce store.
- Continuous monitoring to the group’s performance.
Project Performance and Control
- Monthly monitoring of the project activities by Agri-business Network management headed by the community Director.
- Generating the monthly progressive reports against the work plan and circulate to the project funders and other stakeholders.
- The reporting will be done by the external partner to ensure transparency in the project controls and expenditures.
Project Close
Meeting with the beneficiaries, local leaders and religious leaders to:-
- Confirm whether they have benefited from the project.
- Identify project gaps.
- Recommendations from the above groups.
- Generate a final project evaluation report and circulate it to the project funders and other stakeholders.
