The ACDI/VOCA in Egypt collaborated with H.J. Heinz Company to establish the Alliance for Progress in Egyptian Horticulture and received support from USAID’s Global Development Alliance in 2008 up to 2012. The total amount of the project is around $7 million.
Also known as the Four Thousand Tons Per Day Alliance, this project seeks “to enhance the capability of small farmers, predominantly in Upper Egypt, to serve as reliable suppliers of high value horticulture to processors and other buyers, and to integrate 8,000 farmers into a sustainable and competitive high-value horticultural value chain anchored by Heinz.”
The project will increase farmer organizations, improve product quality and quantity through extensive training in good agricultural practices and targeted on-farm support and developing sustainable linkages to the market and support services.
