Agriculture Production and Productivity

 Agriculture Production and Productivity

The objective of the Agriculture Production and Productivity Programme is to sustainably increase the production and productivity of Afghanistan’s farmers and herders through the provision of enhanced inputs, services and research.   The goal is to move Afghanistan closer to self sufficiency in basic crops, expand production of cash crops (vegetables, horticulture and industrial crops) to meet domestic and export demands, and improve the supply of animal products for the food and handicrafts industry.

The Agriculture Production and Productivity Programme (APP) will address the challenges identified and be based on understanding the complexity of the livelihoods of the poor farmers. Assistance will attempt to ensure a consolidated impact through a multi-sectoral, broad-based effort over an extended length of time. The proposed programmes will facilitate and support the process of getting more and more farmers from subsistence farming into semi-specialized and/or semi-intensive market-based production systems while maintaining diversification for risk reduction and food security. This will be accompanied by a strong effort to introduce value adding processes and to identify and develop markets aiming at both import substitution and export. The programme will consist of the following sub-programmes:

• Sub-Programme A: Cereals and Industrial Crops
• Sub-Programme B: Horticulture
• Sub-Programme C: Livestock
• Sub-Programme D: Irrigation (infrastructure, on-farm irrigation)
• Sub-Programme E: Kuchi Support