AGRI.CRD. & EXPORT P

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The Agricultural Credit and Export Promotion Project seeks to enable smallholders to increase production of food, cash, and export crops suited to peasant farming; and commercial farmers to diversify into export and import-substitution commodities for which they have comparative advantage. Specifically, the Agricultural Credit and Export Promotion Project will provide funds to finance: (i) agricultural credit to smallholders and commercial farmers; (ii) strengthening of the Agricultural Finance Corporation's (AFC) institutional capacity, and expansion of its field facilities; (iii) a pilot scheme to promote the use of farmer groups as channels for credit, marketing, and input supply among smallholders; (iv) expansion and improvement of the cotton processing and storage facilities; (v) strengthening of horticultural post-harvest research; and (vi) studies on horticultural export marketing and the cotton subsector.