PK: Sindh Agricultural Growth Project

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The development objective of the Sindh Agricultural Growth Project for Pakistan is to improve the productivity and market access of small and medium producers in important commodity value chains. The project comprises of three components. The first component, capacity building and institutional development will finance capacity building of producers through technology development, technology dissemination, training, and exposure. It includes following three sub-components: (i) capacity building of producers; (ii) modernization of extension services and agricultural research; and (iii) strategic planning for the agricultural sector. The second component, investment for agricultural growth will finance specific investments in the horticulture and dairy value chains and a targeted investment to reduce post-harvest loss among small-holder rice growers. It will also finance a demand driven innovation fund to support farmers and producers with technology innovations in the selected value chains. It includes following four sub-components: (i) horticulture value chains; (ii) rice post-harvest loss management; (iii) dairy value chain; and (iv) demand driven innovation fund. The third component, project management and monitoring and evaluation will finance costs for: (i) project management units (PMUs), project coordinator's office, and project implementation units (PIUs); (ii) third party monitoring; (iii) implementation of environment and social management framework (ESMF) and pest management plan (PMP) and development of social assessment; and (iv) rigorous impact evaluation to attribute causality to project interventions.