The achievement of sustainable vegetable value chain development project

ORDA Ethiopia’s Sustainable Vegetable value Chain (SVVC) Project runs from 2019 - 2023 in 5 kebeles of Fogera woredas namely, Abua kokit, Bebekis, Kuhar Mikael, Sifatra, and Shina kebele with a total budget of 3.6 Million birrs secured through Development Fund (Funded from Norwegian Aid & Development) to be implemented with the consortium of SNV and Joytech Fresh.

The project aims to increase the income of farmers engaged in horticulture (tomato, pepper and cabbage) by providing training and input to those with knowledge, market linkages and by mitigating product quality problems. The project will run until 2023, benefiting 1,714 farmers by providing market linkages, including modern gardening and quality seedlings.

During the last two years of operation, 545 households (65 in tomato cultivation, 406 in pepper cultivation, and 74 households in cabbage cultivation) have been supplied 1,400 best vegetable varieties each for better yields. In addition, facilitation work is underway to organize and link trade associations to horticulture producer farmers to avoid the market crisis.