USAID Presentation to Kwara State Governor February 26, 2013 Dana - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

USAID Presentation to Kwara State Governor February 26, 2013 Dana Mansuri, Mission Director and Sharon Pauling, Director, Economic Growth and Environment Office 1

Outline of Presentation • Provide an overview of USAID’s Maximizing Agricultural Revenue and Key Enterprises in Target Sites (MARKETS) and Nigeria Expanded Trade and Transportation (NEXTT) Projects • Introduce Project key staff • Identify Areas of Collaboration with Kwara State 2

Maximizing Agricultural Revenue and Key Enterprises in Target Sites (MARKETS) • MARKETS II April 2012 – March 2017 • Follow-on from: MARKETS project: 2005 – 2010 & and Bridge to MARKETS II: December 2010 – April 2011 Objective: Increase private-sector participation and investment, raise incomes, increase employment, promote food security and reduce poverty 3

MARKETS has six inter-related components Producers’ Capacity Development and Organizations : – build capacity of smallholders and strengthen cooperatives and producers’ associations Agricultural Inputs: – address access to basic farm inputs, fertilizer, seed, fish feed, equipment and irrigation systems Technology Generation and Deployment – Innovations that offer the greatest return on investment for smallholders and agribusinesses (high yielding, drought/pest resistant seeds, drip irrigation, urea deep placement) Water and Soil Management: rehabilitate small irrigation systems, support water user associations, introduce and promote sustainable water and soil management techniques Access to Finance: facilitate commercial lending to smallholders and agribusinesses support the GON’s NIRSAL (credit guarantee and risk insurance) program Innovation Fund: grants available to associations of farmers, producers and processors to support above components and to promote innovative partnerships

MARKETS II States/Value Chains and FMARD SCPZ SCPZ SCPZ horticulture, SCPZ rice sorghum, rice, sorghum tomato Value chains Sokoto SCPZ 1 = Aquaculture Katsina 2 = Cocoa onion Jigawa Yobe 3 = Rice Zamfara Kebbi Borno 4 = Cassava Kano 5 = Sorghum 6 = sub VC Maize 7 = sub VC Soybean SCPZ rice Gombe MARKETS II Kaduna Bauchi 1. Oyo (1,2,4,6,7) Niger 2. Enugu (3) SCPZ Adamawa 3. Ondo (1,2,4) cassava 4. Benue (1,3,6,7) Plateau 5. Kaduna (5,6) FCT Kwara 6. Kano (3,5) Nassarawa 7. Taraba (4,5,7,) Oyo 8. Niger (3,6,7) Taraba 9. Kwara (1,3,4,5) Ekiti Kogi Osun 10. Rivers (1,4) Benue 11. Cross River Ondo * Ogun (1,2,4) Edo 12. Delta (1,4) Lagos Enugu Anambra 13. Kogi (3,4,7) Ebonyi SCPZ rice 14. FCT (1,3,4) Cross 15. Sokoto (3, SCPZ citrus Abia River * Delta * Imo Resilience) SCPZ cassava SCPZ rice Support to vulnerable Rivers * Akwa Bayelsa Ibom households * PIND/M II states SCPZ fish SCPZ pineapple

NIGERIA EXPANDED TRADE AND TRANSPORTATION PROJECT • NEXTT October 2012 to September 2016 • Follow-on From: Nigerian Expanded Exports Program (NEEP) 2009-2011 Objective: Support the Nigerian government’s efforts to expand trade domestically, within the ECOWAS sub- region and beyond, and improve its efficiency so that trade, particularly in agricultural products, can provide inclusive economic growth and development of Nigeria

NEXTT has three inter-related components Component 1: Lagos-Kano-Jibiya (LAKAJI) Transport and Agricultural Growth Corridor Improvement – Remove bottlenecks to movement of agricultural goods from the ports in Lagos along Nigeria’s main trunk road through Kano up to the Niger border Component 2: Trade Policy and Trade Facilitation Support – Increase the capacity of Nigerian Government officials on trade policy facilitation Component 3: Export Expansion Support – Enhance the capability of small and medium enterprises to expand export

Agriculture Growth Corridor 8

Agriculture Growth Corridor • Catalyze agribusinesses investments that benefit from improving performance of the LAKAJI transportation route and the agricultural productive endowments of the nine states along the corridor. • Increased agricultural productivity, provide transport and logistics solutions for producers and processors of staple crops, improve post-harvest management, create jobs and contribute to national and regional food security. 9

USAID MARKETS Past Rice Activities in Kwara State • Activities took place in Patigi, Edu, and Ilorin South LGAs • Worked with 16,000 farmers • Increased rice yield from 1.7 to 4.5 mt/ha resulting in increased productivity, income and jobs • 120 farmer groups formed and supported • Provided training on production, group dynamics and leadership • Strengthened linkages between small processors in Patigi and Lade with Olam in Benue state • Facilitated linkage to agro-input and credit sources

USAID MARKETS Past Aquaculture Activities in Kwara State • Partnered with Association of Fish Farmers and Aquaculturists of Nigeria (AFFAN) Kwara State Chapter • Provided training on brood stock development and fish management for African Mud catfish • Provided training in postharvest processing (smoking, drying, packaging, labeling) • Fish farming as a business: farm record keeping, costs, yields and income surveys • Trained Trainers on Package of Practices on catfish production • Prepared aquaculture buyers’ guide (ABG) • Improved aquaculture commercial business practices (quality fish feed, fingerlings, feed management, processing)

USAID MARKETS Project Activities in Kwara State 2010 Fertilizer Voucher Program State Cost Farmers State Fertilizer Fertilizer Share Year Purchased Subsidy Sold (Mt) Sold (N) Funded Fertilizer (N) (N) 2010 23,601 2,803 287,245,800 112,140,000 15,000,000

MARKETS II Planned 2013 Activities in Kwara State Aquaculture Rice Support 198 members of AFFAN- Mobilize and train 5,000 farmers on Kwara with training on water quality improved production, facilitate management, fish health and disease access to quality seeds and agro- control, floating cage and tank culture input, and link farmers to system of tilapia, and improved processors in Patigi and Lade, and hatchery techniques. Also link farmers Kohath Investment Group in Niger to inputs and end markets. State.

MARKETS II Planned 2013 Activities in Kwara State Sorghum Cassava Network and build the capacity of 500 farmers to produce quality and Support cassava farmers with quantity sorghum for Aba Malting trainings on cassava production and Plant (AMP). Train farmers on field management, and link them to modern cultivation methods, group quality stem cutting, inputs and credit dynamics and leadership, and on for farmers in 2014 NAEC.

USAID-Kwara State Areas of Collaboration • Increase productivity and income from target crops through the introduction of improved technologies, management practices and post-harvest handling • Improve the agricultural input supply chain for seed and fertilizer working with Notore and other suppliers • Facilitate agribusiness investments particularly in the Agribusiness Corridor/Agriculture Growth Corridor • Increase access to credit for small farmers and processors 15

USAID-Kwara State Areas of Collaboration • Build institutional capacity of the agricultural extension agency (Kwara ADP), farmers organizations and agribusiness associations • Work closely with local service providers like Agricultural Business Concept (ABC) • Strengthen market linkages particularly for small scale processors in Patigi and Lade, and Kohath Investment Group • Sign Implementation Agreement with National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization (NCAM) for research, testing and demonstration of appropriate technology for target crops

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