The estimated increase in farm surplus of farmers will vary between 40% and 89%. Farmers will benefit from enhanced levels of real and money income.
PROJECT WINTER CCU FULL
At the point of full development, 491 vegetable producers will be direct beneficiaries of the project. Based on the yield projections and on the phasing of farmers participation and land utilization, it is estimated that incremental output would be about 2 780 tons of assorted vegetables and 583 tons of paddy rice. The project intervention would increase significantly yields from year 3 onwards of all winter and summer crops, in particular maize (40%), rice (50%) while vegetables vary between 20% and 50%.
PROJECT WINTER CCU TRIAL
The project also included the rehabilitation of twelve irrigation schemes.Ĭomponents: (a) Irrigation: rehabilitation of 12 smallholder-group irrigation schemes for the production of rice and vegetables (b) Marketing: creation and establishment of a National Agricultural Marketing Board (NAMB) provision of market facilities for fruits and vegetables, and maize and establishment of a Market Intelligence Office under the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MOAC) Marketing Advisory Unit (c) Smallholder Credit: improvement in the lending policy of and provision of funds to augment and sustain Swazi Development and Savings Bank (SDSB) smallholder Agricultural Advisory Credit Scheme (d) Smallholder Inputs Distribution and Maize Purchases through strengthening the Central Cooperative Unions (CCU): provision of working capital and/or credit facilities to improve CCU's smallholder farm inputs distribution and maize purchase activities (e) MOAC Tractor Hire Pool: provision of tractors and other facilities and improvement in the organization and management of the operations and services of the unit (f) Technical Assistance and Staff Training (g) Special Trial and Studies (h) Monitoring and Evaluation.Įxpected Effects. The main focus of the project was to be on institutional development, in particular the strengthening of the smallholder marketing and credit support services. The project aims at assisting the Government of Swaziland (GOS) in its efforts to achieve food self-sufficiency and to improve farm incomes and standards of living among the rural population, in particular for low income smallholders. From this group, 8 000 homesteads or about 80 000 people were expected to benefit directly from the project. Most homesteads grow subsistence crops, principally maize, and cotton as cash crops and about 65% own cattle.Īn estimated 22 900 homesteads comprising 226 000 people in the Rural Development Areas (RDAs) and about 700 homesteads growing vegetables on the Vuvelane and Magwanyane private irrigation schemes outside the RDAs were to be taken as the target group. Mean farm size varied in 1987 between 1.6 and 2.5 ha. The agricultural sector is dualistic in nature, with the modern plantation export subsector, covering 45% of all rural land and the subsistence or traditional sub-sector occupying 55%. Supplementary irrigation is needed either to grow vegetables and perennial tree crops and/or to reduce uncertainties of rainfall. Most of the precipitation occurs in summer (October-March). The country is sub tropical, with wide variation in annual rainfall between 760 and 1 140 mm. The economy is strongly dependent on that of RSA. *There are many ways of categorising the projects as there are many combinations and a range of different applications and industries.The Kingdom of Swaziland is a small land-locked country situated in the south-eastern part of the African continent and almost entirely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa (RSA).
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ZEP is continuously updating the CCS/CCU projects map. The projects included on this map are market-ready projects – projects that are on track to become operational before 2030, provided that supportive policy and financial frameworks are in place.
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