Grain Bulking the way to go for smallholder farmers

Objectives:
To develop sustainable value chains and reduce poverty by increasing smallholder farmers’ access to commercial staple foods markets.

Duration: February 2010 – May 2011

Geographical locations: Southern and Eastern Regions of Uganda, Western Kenya and Kigali, Rwanda.

Partners: Funded USAID COMPETE and implemented in partnership with UNADA.

SSMATI supported agrodealers in Southern and Eastern Regions of Uganda to aggregate surpluses from smallholder farmers and link the commodity to the formal markets in Rwanda and Kenya that are grain deficit countries.

Impact:

An alternative, more competitive, Market for Grain for small holder farmers was developed through the agrodealers Agrodealers in Kenya and Uganda were trained on grain bulking and were supported to improve storage facilities.

By the end of the project period these agrodealers had purchased 2,234 MT of grain valued at $ 502,000 from 14,566 smallholder farmers Supported agrodealers continue to provide market for surplus grain from farmers.