MPP II

closed

The Second Agricultural Minimum Package Project will expand and consolidate the Borrower's agricultural minimum package program over a two-year period. The project has been designed to: (i) increase the productivity and incomes of small farmers by introducing them to fertilizer, improved seeds and other agricultural inputs; (ii) strengthen the institutional and technical framework to progressively expand and improve the minimum package program; and (iii) help to ensure long-term productivity of the land by expanding the Borrower's soil and water conservation efforts. By the end of the project period, an additional 150,000 farm families are expected to be served by the minimum package program. After about thirteen years, an estimated 2.0 million farm families will have benefitted from the program and smallholder foodgrain production is expected to have increased substantially. The project primarily faces risks of delays and of possible reductions in scale. However, in view of the importance and high potential of the project for the mostly very low-income Ethiopian farmers, the risks are considered acceptable.