Purchase For Progress (P4P) “Building Capacity of Agrodealers in Output Marketing”

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Funded By
World Food Programme (WFP)
Impact Area
Kenya – Western, Rift Valley, Eastern and Central provinces
Dates
February 2010 – January 2011
AGMARK and World Food Program (WFP) Purchase for Progress (P4P) Project aimed to build Agrodealers capacity in grain bulking and aggregation. They conducted joint sensitization visits to farmers and Agrodealers, on the need to engage in grain bulking. from February 2010 to January 2011, AGMARK and the WFP P4P partnered to train and facilitate selected Agrodealers in Kenya to undertake grain bulking and aggregation in Western, Rifty valley, Eastern and Central province of Kenya.
Woman in formal attire speaks at podium with US-Kenya flags, highlighting WFP Africa's Purchase for Progress initiative amid agricultural backdrop

Goal

To connect farmers to markets through building and strengthening the capacity of Agrodealers to engage in output marketing activities through integration of input and output distribution systems.

Activities

  • Trained Agrodealers on grain bulking and aggregation.
  • Supported Agrodealers by improving their storage facilities and providing them with basic grain bulking equipment's (Weighing scales, moisture meters, sieves, stitching machines, tarpaulins, pallets and Gunny Bags) through a matching investment facility.

Key Achievements

193
Agrodealers involved in staple grain trading Trained
2,337
Smallholder farmers trained on agricultural best practices/benefitting from project interventions
3,250 MT
Volume of Grain/Produce sold by Grain traders
19
Agrodealers/Grain traders/FBO Receiving Grant support