Value Chains research report Tajikistan final - Microfinance Centre

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controls, officers of State Agency for Standardization, and representatives of consulting firms, interviews with microfinance institutions and staff of other value chain projects. Research Geography was the local markets, farms and enterprises of Dushanbe, Sughd and Khatlon regions and districts surrounding Dushanbe city. The various data sources were used to assess markets outside of Tajikistan. Study Objectives. The main objective of the study is to understand the agricultural chains existing in Tajikistan and to identify potential opportunities to engage MFIs in the development of agricultural value chain financing in Tajikistan. Current situation. The agricultural value chain research proposed here at the initiative of ICCO will discover the needs on various levels of the value chain organization and among different actors. Agricultural value chains in Tajikistan are already in the spotlight of several development projects. Value chain development projects of Frankfurt School and ICCO/Helvetas already provide support which aims at strengthening farming activities through training and extension service. Microfinance institutions are typically engaged in value chain financing by providing loans to agricultural producers. However, there are also some MFIs which serve processors (dairy, grain mill), input (seeds, fertilizers) producers and traders as well as procurement companies (see table below). These institutions managed to extend their services beyond the producers thanks to the external guidance and technical assistance. Staffing. The study was implemented by ‘LLC Harif’ consulting company with Bakhtyior Abduvokhidov acting as a lead consultant. Timeline. The consultants worked on that project from November to December, 2011. 2. Existing initiatives supporting the development of the agricultural value chains in the Tajikistan. Dozens of projects are being implemented by various donors in Tajikistan in the last decade, in the area of agricultural development, business development or economic development of individual regions or specific areas of activity. These projects provide both educational and consultancy services for business representatives, including work with input dealers, producers, processors, wholesalers, traders, and exporters. These projects and donors provide technical support to value chain representatives. Below we provide table which include the list of institutions and organizations providing non-financial support and financing to the actors of value chains. 6
Table 1. Institutions/organizations providing non-financial support and financing to the actors of value chains. Institutions, Programs DAI (Family farming project) ACDIVOCA Productive Agriculture project Chemonics, Land reform project Donor Geography focus Interventions these institutions provide USAID Khatlon Improve FS through income generation, value chain support, productivity and nutritional practices. Project support all VC which develop on small household plots, mostly fruits and vegs. USAID Sughd, DNJ, Western Khatlon Productivity; fin. services; private sector capacity (extension by input supply dealers; BDS for processing SMEs) USAID Tajikistan Market-driven land policies and legislation, Restructuring of farms, trainings thru the local PO List of VC supported All, horticulture, onion, potatoes, livestock Apricot, lemons, watermelons, onions, tomatoes & beef All CNFA Farmers to Farmer, nodir.i@cnfatj.org, www.cnfa.org Mercy Corps TSEP USAID Tajikistan Free Ag. Consulting services from international volunteer experts. Providing consulting services. USAID Asht and Isfara district Sughd, Shartuz district Khatlon Social development, VC development, education in better food production and preservation techniques DCA USAID Tajikistan Credit guarantee program through the banking system, will be provided on amount 50% of loans for various VC players TAFF GIZ EU-IFC EBRD DFID/ GIZ Tajikistan Northern Tajikistan Provided over 30 mln USD loans. Now focusing on value chain analysis and extension services Fruit and vegetable processing and value chain development (esp. tomatoes) in Sughd, developing agricultural extension, forming technical assistance groups, financing for equipment, encourage oilseeds, soil erosion control, cross-border trade promotion, policy advice GIZ Agricultural financial services All EBRD EBRD Tajikistan Agricultural financial services, All Support Business Consulting Most on agribus., water mngt), horticulture, dairy Fruit and veg All Cotton, fruits and veg Apricot, tomato, greenhouse, onion, apple, potato 7
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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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Employment Characteristics The fiel
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Big traders purchase potato from co
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Scheme 6. Value Chain Map for Potat
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Opportunities Production: • Poten
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As it shown in table 36, more than
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Traders and Wholesalers Farmers sel
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Lemon pricing is highly seasonal. T
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facilities, in bulk, without crates
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Scheme 7. Lemon Value Chain Markets
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Producers. Grapes are a popular agr
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Scheme 8. Value chain for grape. Ma
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Table 42. Export fresh Grape from T
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2010 total of 1.9 million head. The
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highly contagious diseases in cattl
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Large butchers control the price of
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understanding of the processes. Cur
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variables Up to 1 somoni from a kg
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There are no cattle recording syste
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• Poor using the concentrate feed
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honey are blue cornflower, blueweed
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• Attacks by common bee eater (bi
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Table 52. Seasonality in beekeepers
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Wire and comb foundation are source
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Diagram 6. Places where honey and s
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Traders. Honey marketing agents: Th
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• Facilitating the establishment
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targets group in each value chain.
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Rushdi Dekhot, PO, Khasan Temirov A
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MMC/ATAS, agricultural training and
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