Agricultural Productivity and Diversification

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The development objective of the Agricultural Productivity and Diversification Project (PADA) for Benin is to restore and improve productivity and value addition for selected value chains in the recipient's territory. There are four components to the project. The first component of the project is adoption of improved technologies and restoration of productivity. Under this component the project will finance adoption of improved technologies for the development of the food security and export-oriented value chains (aquaculture, maize, rice, cashew, and pineapple). It will also support the restoration of the means of production of households affected by the flood, particularly the productions of cereals (maize and rice), aquaculture, and livestock. The second component of the project is development/rehabilitation of irrigation and market infrastructures. The component will finance the rehabilitation and development of small scale irrigation infrastructures to improve productivity and reduce output variability; and the construction and rehabilitation of market and storage infrastructures, some of which were destroyed by the recent floods. . The third component of the project is value chain coordination and agricultural financing. This component aims to improve the coordination of targeted value chains and to help improve access to financial services for project beneficiaries. It will provide business development services to help address critical supply and demand constraints to the provision and access to credit and financial services in agriculture. It will also support building value chain institutions through the organization of value chain participants into a well structured inter-professions and the organization of producers around structuring activities, such as rice milling, fingerlings and fish feed production. The fourth component of the project is sector program coordination and project management. This component will help strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fishery (MAEP) to effectively coordinate the implementation of the sector program (including PADA) and to manage and monitor the project.