Value Chains research report Tajikistan final - Microfinance Centre

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Summary and Conclusions The study sought to conduct a rapid value chain analysis and to establish the supply and demand of financial services, opportunities, challenges and linkages and to recommend suitable financial products at both wholesale and retail level for further development. Owing to diversity of the sub-sectors multiple methodologies ranging from desk studies, surveys, case studies and depth interviews were utilized. The team did a fantastic job given the very short time frame for this work. However, much more remains to be done. Other issues left to explore include further examination of end market potential, and more detailed focus on financial product design. The banks and financial institutions do seem to need further support in terms of better understanding the value chains, analyzing their potential and the role of financing in upgrading. Also, the banks and MFIs need further support in learning to assess the cash flows of their clients and incorporating this information into product design. Financing needed to further develop information and communication technologies and improved logistics. However, the need for financing for these particular activities was not explored during this review. With large Russian, Turk, Iranian and Kazakh firms currently active in these services there may be some opportunities for franchising, leasing, and other forms of within value chain financial support. These are service areas which will benefit the economy overall and which will aid firms and producers in making more informed choices about what to plant when and how to sell in order to get the highest return. Much of the financing needed is also not value chain specific and unique for all. Medium and long term credit is needed across the all value chains to support better packaging, storing, and transporting. MFIs need to provide loans linked to Producers/Agro inputs Dealers /Wholesalers/Processors to increase extension services. Currently the extension services in country mostly oriented for donor support and in initial step could be used by MFIs. Generally all sub-sectors are poorly financed and the ratio of penetration finance services low. Banking institutions start to think about linkages with extension services, but still not developed. Supporting all actors of value chain are important, include collectors and middlemen. Mobilization of farmers, access to finance, input optimization, technology upgrade and modernization, increasing storage and processing, market development and improvement in extension services are cross-cutting recommendations for all sub-sectors. Financial products are needed to help farmers’ access process and market their produce. Financing proper inputs (quality seeds, CPPs, fertilizers) and irrigation, store, a cold chain and long life product processing can greatly stabilize the sub-sector and benefit farmers. Processing is also limited despite increasing market opportunities. The sector is linked as required by law and integration is gathering pace. Financing access to improvement in processing technology and retail business practices are critical to the subsector. We hopes that value chain analyses conducted in this survey will lead to development appropriate financial products and the products will respond the needs of 118
targets group in each value chain. One valuable lesson was the need to take into consideration how financing, or lack thereof, affects the overall competitiveness of the value chains. In particular, when household financial flows are not taken into account the competitiveness of the value chain is compromised, and the economic benefits to the producer are reduced. Poorly designed or not proper applicable financial products will result in producers either defaulting on their loans, because cash is needed for other more urgent expenses (e.g. inputs for counter-season crops or family expenses), or producers will be forced to sell their crops at sub-optimal prices (during the glut at harvest time). 119
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Research on agricultural value chai
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List of abbreviation AMFOT - Associ
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and watermelon, sixth VCA for potat
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Table 1. Institutions/organizations
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seminars, providing potato seed, fe
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The transaction between the Input d
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Table 3: Examples of microfinance i
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When describing and analyzing some
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fourth with just above 6 thousand h
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As the table shows, apricots are pr
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To transport fresh apricots for exp
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The export of dried apricots. The e
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5.1.3. Apricots Processed by Cannin
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• Retailers are people who sell t
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• Strengthen buyer (exporter/proc
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Increases in production of vegetabl
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traditionally lower in Sughd Region
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same as inside Tajikistan, which ma
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3. Entrepreneurs are not interested
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2. Representatives of Tajikmatlubot
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5.3. Open field Tomato value chain
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Diagram 2. Tomato Semi-Wholesale Pr
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• It is not profitable for farmer
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Table 21: Export of canned Tomato P
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product is import substitution prod
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Table 24: Location the greenhouse a
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In general, the wide price fluctuat
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Scheme 4. Value Chain for greenhous
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produce much more to substitute Uzb
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Table 27. Harvesting of Melon and W
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Diagram 4. Dynamics of Watermelon P
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Scheme 5. Value chain for Watermelo
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from sprouting to harvesting lasts
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Page 87 and 88: Scheme 8. Value chain for grape. Ma
Page 89 and 90: Table 42. Export fresh Grape from T
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Page 109 and 110: Table 52. Seasonality in beekeepers
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Page 115 and 116: Traders. Honey marketing agents: Th
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