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CIP • SOCIAL SCIENCES WORKING PAPER 2010-1
Create enabling conditions for the informal processors to be exempted from taxes
until they are well established in their business and then encourage them to be
registered and operate formally.
Facilitate potato producers to be organized formally, for instance, in the form of
"Seed and Ware Potato Producers Unions" and help them obtain legal entity and
provide technical backstopping, such as auditing, training and others.
Help the potential frozen chips processors in finding markets for export, especially in
COMESA member countries.
4. Development Organizations, such as NGOs, Regional and International Organizations
Help the potential processors in creating enabling conditions for financial services,
such as Micro Finance Institutions, capacity building, organizing processors, linking
processors to retail outlets, transfer of chips processing technologies through
appropriate routes to technology transfer such as pamphlets, posters, mass-media,
etc.
Regional and International organizations (ASARECA programs, CIP and others) could
help in technical backstopping and capacity building (such as, organizing
experience sharing visits, on-the-job trainings, stakeholder consultations, etc.).
Regional and International Organizations could also help in providing competitive
grant funds for research and extension works that target strengthening potential
chips processing sector.
Transferring findings of the study through websites, publications, organizing
workshops and other relevant forums.
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