Second Agricultural Growth Project

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The development objective of the Second Agricultural Growth Project for Ethiopia is to increase agricultural productivity and commercialization of small holder farmers targeted by the project. The project comprises of five components. The first component, agricultural public support services will increase access to public agricultural services for smallholder farmers. The second component, agricultural research will increase the supply of demand-driven agricultural technologies which directly link to the other components. The third component, small scale irrigation will increase the access to and efficient utilization of irrigation water by smallholder farmers. The fourth component, agriculture marketing and value chains will commercialize smallholder farmers through increased access to input and output markets. The fifth component, project management, capacity building, and monitoring and evaluation (M and E) will ensure project implementation, effective M and E of results, and a consistent and effective approach to capacity development.