Agriculture Commercialization Project (ACP or Project) is an IDA grant in the amount of US$22 million prepared to support Tajikistan’s endeavor towards the growth and poverty reduction path the country has undertaken in the late recent years.
The Project is in line with the new comprehensive Agrarian Reform Programme prepared in close cooperation with International Financial Institutions, donors and development partners (Development Coordination Council, the DCC) that was approved in August 2012.
The Project intends increasing the commercialization of agriculture by strengthening the ability of the new generation of small-scale, private farmers to engage in market commercialization activities with the agribusiness sector and gain access to markets. This will be done using a coherent and complementary approach, addressing all the main aspects of this effort, by:
• increasing the capacity of farmers, traders, agri-business and agro-processors to engage in agricultural markets
through access to knowledge and technical assistance;
• improving access to investment finance; and
• strengthening critical elements of the institutional framework and sector’s academic knowledge base required to
support commercial activity.
The Project will increase the commercialization of agricultural products using a coherent and complementary approach, addressing all of the main aspects of this effort, by: increasing the capacity of farmers, traders, agri-businesses and agro-processors to engage in agricultural markets through access to knowledge and technical assistance; improving access to finance; and strengthening critical elements of the institutional framework and the sector’s academic knowledge base required to support commercial activity. Particular emphasis will be given to strengthening the ability of the new generation of small-scale, private farmers to engage in market activity. The main direction of project activities will be to support the functioning of the private sector, and measures to strengthen capacity in the public sector will be included in those parts of the project where they complement the activities in the private sector.