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“Building of Cellar facilities for storage of fruits and vegetables (orchard fruits and potato) in mountain areas of Lyakhsh district"

Lyaksh district is one of the remotest districts of Tajikistan, locating at the border with Kyrgyzstan. The district is located at 300km distance from capacity city Dushanbe. Majority people in Lyakhsh district are engaged with agriculture crop production and livestock breeding. The main agnculture product in this mountain area is potato. The potato are procured by local and national private entrepreneurs and sold at the local and republican markets. Due to lack of storage facilities at the household levels as well as shortage of knowledge on innovative/ alternative storage technologies the local farmers and potato producers are enforced to sale their products at the very low gate price that do not cover their basic expenses. Hundred thousand tons of potato and fruits are produced annually in the district, where the storage is an issue. Damage and loss of the agnculture crops is comparatively high due to lack of technologies and facilities to proper store and eventually realize the foodstuff at reasonable price, while the price for the product will get higher. Proper storage and accumulation of the agriculture food crops and fruits would enable local farmers to increase their family income and improve their livelihoods, thereby contributing to the protection of environment and effective use of biodiversity in the local level. This project would also demonstrate and widespread best available technologies and techniques for storage of agriculture food crops and fruits. The project has great potential for scaling-up and replication amongst local farmers and food crop producers as it is easy to use and would not require substantial investments to build storage facilities.

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Grantee:

CSO Paivand

Country:

Tajikistan

Area Of Work:

Biodiversity

Operational Phase:

OP6 - Y2 (Jul 16-Jun 17)

Grant Amount:

US$ 13,900.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 13,300.00

Project Number:

TJK/SGP/OP6/Y2/BD/CORE/2016/08

Start Date:

12/2016

End Date:

1/2018

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

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Project Characteristics and Results

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

1) Organization and provision of 10 one-day trainings and educational courses for 200-300 local farmers, agriculture crop producers, local administration, environmental experts and local operating civil society organizations focusing on ecological and food security issues, as well as food storage facilities; 2) Organization and provision of monthly training/ education courses for 20 talented young people (50% women) on adequate placing, accumulation, storage and reproduction of fruits and vegetables; 3) Building of at least 6-10 cellar food & fruits (F&F) storage facilities (10-15 tons capacity) within rural households (based on the selection criteria developed in the project inception phase); 4) Procurement of necessary tools and materials for organization of prepacking and reproduction of fruits and vegetables at the bases of F&F storage facilities; 5) Provision of self-employment for 20-30 people/ local farmers (50% women); 6) Organization and conduct number of civic awareness raising and visibility campaigns amongst local farmers within and outside the project zone - in order to widespread the best practices and contribute to the replication of the demonstration project;

Gender Focus

Direct beneficiaries: Training participants: 200-300 people (50% women); Employment created: 20 people (50%women); 10 local farmers including 600-700 people (family members, 50% women) benefited from Storage facilities and local workshops; Indirect beneficiaries: Awareness campaign: 1000 people received information materials and publications;

Notable Community Participation

Income generating activities are created for above 10 local farmers including 700 people of their family members, thereby improving their livelihoods.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The project is financially and economically sustainable as it contributes to the development of local production' and market, as well as create employment for 20 people. A total of 100-120 tons of fruits and vegetables are properly stored and made available at the local markets (500,000 TJS or USD 60K annually). Ecologically the project is also sustainable, as it increases motivation of local farmers to accumulate and to store the fruits/ vegetables and also enable them to sale at higher prices throughout the year. Economic value and the income generated from the fruits & vegetables business would increase the motivation of local farmers and agriculture crop producers to apply the SLM and sustainable agriculture development best practices in their lands and orchards, thereby protecting and expanding their areas and production from the year to year. Created market and cash trade at the local level will also instill local community to purchase and to use alternative energy sources and fuel means instead of cutting nearby forests and woods, which is main factor of massive deforestation and occurrences of natural disasters.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

The project will aim on establishment of cellar storages for accumulation and storage of agriculture food crops and their reproduction with subsequent marketing of ready products at the local markets. The project will target local farmers and producers of the agriculture crops in Lyaksh district. The primary objectives of the projects are: identify and select the potential local farmers who will be eager to make in-cash and in-kind contributions to the project and will be willing to speak out and widespread information about effectiveness of the storage facilities to other local farmers; select and build the storage facilities in at least 6-10 local households considering the local landscape, soil structure, weather condition, and other agro-technological conditions for building of storage facilities at the household levels; the TOT and education courses will be also conducted among local farmers on proper accumulation, storage and reproduction of the fruits and vegetables kept in the storage; ensuring the local households make maximum use out of this storage facilities thereby making more income, improve livelihoods and food security at the rural mountainous areas of Lyaksh district.

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