Access to finance
Capacity building
Market assessment
Value chain development
Oil crops
Rwanda: Sunflower (Ibihwagari) Project, Achmea Foundation, 562,130 EUR, 2022-2026
Donor: Achmea Foundation
Goal
The project’s goal is to improve the resilience and livelihood of smallholder sunflower farmers in Rwanda by increasing crop productivity and farmers’ access to markets and finances.
What we do
In cooperating with micro-finance Institutions (MFIs), the Rwandan Agriculture Board (RAB), sunflower oil processing plants, and selected cooperatives, EUCORD aims to:
- Connect sunflower processors to local farmers
- Help identify and implement good agricultural practices to ensure better return on investment for farmers
- Improve value chain by organizing sunflower farmers into cooperatives, strengthening their production capacity and their ability to connect with larger markets
Project Updates
- Secured 32 farming contracts between local oil processors and producers with a net worth of 696,697 EUR in income to 32 cooperatives
- Production of 495,501 liters of cold pressed virgin sunflower oil by 2 oil plants from sunflower produced by farmers.
- Mobilization of 95,528 EUR by sunflower producers as input loans from MoneyPhone and MFIs.
- A sunflower stakeholders’ workshop was held among key public and private entities, along with individuals engaged in the sunflower value chain, for the purpose of advancing the chain in a mutually beneficial manner. Made in Rwanda sunflower products were also exhibited.