CONCEPT NOTE

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CONCEPT NOTE

• SUPPORT FOR THE MECHANISATION OF RICE PRODUCTION

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INTRODUCTION

• MoFA policies, (FASDEP II METASIP) Strategies
  to modernise agricultural sector through
• mechanisation
• income diversification
• Targets - poor and risk prone and risk-averse
  producers.

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INTRODUCTION CONTD

• Rice - one of the selected commodities.
• Targets
• 80 small scale rice farmers and
• 20 emergent commercial rice farmers (METASIP
  NRDS).

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INTRODUCTION CONTD

• Rice sector specific objectives
• Improving the capacity of local rice industry to
  compete with imported rice in terms of price and
  quality.
• Increasing the market share of local rice as
  against imported rice
• Establish strategic stocks in rice.

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INTRODUCTION CONTD

• Interventions Proposed (METASIP)
• Assist Private Sector to set-up commercially
  viable Agricultural Mechanization Services
  Enterprise Centres (AMSECs) at strategic
  locations.
• Purpose enhancing farmers and agro-processors
  accessibility to mechanise services at affordable
  cost

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JUSTIFICATION

• Raise the self-sufficiency
• 35 to about 75 by 2015
• agricultural mechanisation seen as one of the
  vehicles.
• average age of tractors in use - 15 years.
• Most farming districts and communities do not
  have access to agricultural machinery for all
  stages of crop production.

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JUSTIFICATION CONTD

• The current high level of farm losses of
  produce(30)
• - partly attributable to limited and untimely
  availability of agricultural machines
• farm power relies overwhelmingly on human muscle
  power (hoe and other hand tools).
• Hence
• Serious limitations on amount of land cultivated
  per family
• Reduces and limits the effectiveness of essential
  farm operations thereby reducing crop yields.

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JUSTIFICATION CONTD

• large scale investment in agricultural
  mechanisation services
• medium to large commercial farmers.
• Few tractor hire schemes meant for small scale
  farmers not effectively utilised
• The way forward
• ensure availability of appropriate equipment
  through private distributors and service
  providers

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JUSTIFICATION CONTD

• Ministrys Accelerated Agricultural Mechanisation
  policy - 5,000 tractors ( 30-50kW) made available
  to farmers and other private sector operators.
• Use of KR2 (Japanese grant) to support
  underprivileged rice farmers
• This Concept Note seeks to offer options for a
  large scale replication of the Scheme.

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POTENTIAL INTERVENTION ZONES AND TARGET GROUPS

• Zones
• By growing systems
• irrigated, rainfed-lowland and upland,
• Potentially high rice producing districts
• Targeted groups
• farmers, machine fabricators and repairers,
  processors and millers, traders, transporters
  (haulers), local researches
• Beneficiaries with high willingness and
  commitment

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OBJECTIVES - Main Objective

• To accelerate modernisation and
  commercialisation of rice production through
  expanded use of mechanisation services

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Specific Objectives

• To enhance the use of agricultural machinery to
  improve the timeliness and efficiency of farm
  operations to commercialise rice production.
• To provide support for private sector led
  entrepreneurship and investment in agricultural
  machinery management, maintenance, and service
  provision.
• Build capacity of experts and technicians for
  improved operations and maintenance of
  agricultural machinery.

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COMPONENTS OUTPUTS
COMPONENTS OUTPUTS
1. Enhancing Agricultural Machinery Usage 1.1Private sector to own agricultural machinery plant pools collaborated with.
1. Enhancing Agricultural Machinery Usage 1.2 Mechanism for the 20 large scale actors along the value chain to acquire or lease agricultural machinery subsidies and credit facilitated.
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COMPONENTS OUTPUTS
COMPONENTS OUTPUTS
2. Equipment Maintenance and Management 2.1 Maintenance cycles for sets of equipment drawn and operated
2. Equipment Maintenance and Management 2.2 Capacity of specialised garages to maintain the machinery identified and built.
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COMPONENTS OUTPUTS
COMPONENTS OUTPUTS
3. Capacity Building and Farm Power R D 3.1. Academic and research institutions to run short courses in agricultural machinery (assembling, fabrication and maintenance) supported.
3. Capacity Building and Farm Power R D 3.2. Capacity of RTIU of AESD to develop extension dissemination modules of R D findings strengthened.
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COMPONENTS OUTPUTS
COMPONENTS OUTPUTS
4. Artisanal Development and Fabrication of Machinery and Parts 4.1. Capacity of 50 -100 local artisans and entrepreneurs to manage the assembling/fabrication plants built
4. Artisanal Development and Fabrication of Machinery and Parts 4.2 Experts to collaborate with relevant manufacturers to develop machinery prototypes in joint efforts trained.
4. Artisanal Development and Fabrication of Machinery and Parts 4.3 Design modifications in machinery prototypes to reduce the local manufacturing and production costs incorporated
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ACTIVITIES

• Facilitate fabricators' access to credit to
  establish/expand machinery pools
• Ensuring that assembling/fabrication centres are
  appropriated sited
• Generate commercial demand for the locally
  produced prototypes through promotional
  activities and demonstrations through Fairs and
  exhibitions.

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ACTIVITIES CONTD

• Build capacity of fabricators in the manufacture
  of appropriate machinery and equipment for the
  rice sector
• Identify rice machinery operators and mechanics
  for training
• Conduct training-needs assessment and develop
  training modules

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ACTIVITIES CONTD

• Train selected mechanics on maintenance of
  machinery like tractor, power tillers, pumps,
  mills, threshers, par-boilers, cleaners etc.
• Set up a collaborative mechanism with the
  engineering faculties of relevant institutions
  for research and training.
• Organise scheduled in-service training for MoFA
  staff on the use of agricultural machinery.

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COSTING AND FINANCING

• Estimated Amount needed - 100m

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IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY OF THE PROJECT

• Typical PPP arrangement
• Government initiates facilitates importation of
  the machines
• Private sector entrepreneurs acquire and operate
  as business enterprise.
• Oversight committee set up to ensure commitment
  of repayment
• Committee composition - representatives of MoFA,
  Financial Institution, Mechanised Services
  Centres, Farmer Representatives and District
  Assembly.

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PROJECT ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT

• Execution led by MoFA through
• steering committee
• national level.
• District level.
• Committees co-chaired by
• Ministry Rep and
• Private sector Rep.

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MONITORING AND EVALUATION

• M E system designed for the project.
• data required to be collected defined
• Indicators outlined
• logical framework

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RISKS

• Inflation and lending rate
• Effects of Climate change disasters
• Lack of factors such as
• improved seeds, rainfall, GAP
• Inability to fabricate or stock back up parts
• Government inability to source enough funds

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