QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF DOMESTIC
RICE SUPPORT FOR VALUE CHAIN ACTORS
Introduction
•Agriculture -mainstay of the Ghanaian
Economy
•Contributes to about 39% of GDP
•Employs about 51% (4.2 million)
of the working population
•The National Food and Agriculture Sector Policy
(FASDEP II) has vision of•Modernized agriculture,
•Culminating in structurally transformed economy,
•Evident in food security,
•Employment opportunities,
•And reduced poverty
The vision is linked to Global, Regional, Subregional and National Development programmes
such as
•MDG Goals, GPRS II and CAADP of NEPAD
•The common goal is food security, employment
creation, income generation and poverty
reduction
The crop sub-sector in particular quality and
competitive rice production
•provides a major option to exploit towards
achieving these goals
•This is because the rice crop has contributed to
the Green Revolution in South-East Asia and
other parts of the Sub-Saharan African continent
•Rice production in Ghana is however lacking
behind levels of consumption
•Ghana produces only 30% of its rice
requirements
•Imports 70%
•Amounting to about 500, 000 tons/year
• Costing about $218m
CHALLENGES TO INCREASED LOCAL
RICE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
•The poor quality of paddy produced
•Inadequate and inefficient processing and milling
equipment resulting in poor quality milled rice
•Inadequate and poor post harvest infrastructure
• High cost of inputs
•Inadequate funding
•Others
This project proposal under the NRDS seeks
• to provide guidelines that will give support to
post harvest handling of rice in relation to
• processing, storage, distribution and marketing
of paddy
•to enhance quality of milled rice,
competitiveness, marketing and consumption
JUSTIFICATION
Improved rice processing techniques aimed at
•Increasing the acceptability, marketing and
consumption of local (Ghana grown) rice needs to
be pursued
•This project seeks to offer equipment support and
strengthen the capacities of stakeholders (post
harvest) of the rice sector
JUSTIFICATION CONT’D
• Contribute to improving competitiveness,
quality, enhance income generation, food
security and import substitution
INTERVENTION ZONES
& TARGET GROUPS
•Communities in rice growing areas where
substantial quantities of paddy rice are produced
•Communities undertaking rice processing and
milling as income generating activities
•Target groups: farmers, rice processors
(parboiling), millers, artisans, haulage companies,
traders and consumers
MAIN OBJECTIVE
• To improve the quality, competitiveness and
consumption of domestic rice
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
• To offer strategic support to rice value chain
actors (VCAs) for production of quality rice
• To build the capacities of rice VCAs in post
production handling of rice
• To promote linkage of rice VCAs to credit
sources to ensure reliable access to inputs,
equipment and market
• To facilitate reliable pricing and market
information system for use by stakeholders
along the value chain
COMPONENTS
1.
Equipment support
2.
Capacity building
3.
Credit support system
4.
Market information systems
A. EQUIPMENT SUPPORT
Outputs
Quality of paddy
produced enhanced
Activities
•Capacity building in quality
control of paddy production
•Installation and test run of
harvesters and threshers
Standard rice mills
installed and
operating
•Installation and test run of
mills
•Training in safety
precautions, operation and
maintenance of mills
A. EQUIPMENT SUPPORT CONT’D
Existing one-pass
•Carry out modification
mills improved
•Build capacity of millers in
the operation and
maintenance of mills
Equipment spare
•Access the frequently
parts provided and
needed parts of mills
mills maintained and •Acquire/fabricate to build
operational
stock of needed spare parts
A. EQUIPMENT SUPPORT CONT’D
Quality of
milled/
parboiled rice
improved
•Build capacities of millers in
milling operations and
maintenance
•Build capacities of processors
in improved parboiling
technology
B. CAPACITY BUILDING
Outputs
Groups /
associations
of VCAs
formed and
operational
Rice quality
standards
developed
Activities
•Formation and registration of
groups/associations
•Capacity building in effective group
management
•Identify and assess the existing
quality control practices
•Build capacity of processors in
regulatory and quality standards
B. CAPACITY BUILDING CONT’D
Packaging
•Training of stakeholders in
and labelling packaging of rice using appropriate
introduced
packaging material
•Training in branding and adoption
of standard weights for marketing
rice
Capacities of •Register buyers and suppliers
traders
•Capacity building of traders in
enhanced
grading and sorting of appropriate
varieties
C. CREDIT SUPPORT SYSTEM
Outputs
Linkages
between MFIs
and value chain
actors (VCAs)
/associations
established and
functioning
Adequate credit
made available
to VCAs and
recovered
Activities
•Sensitize stakeholders (including
micro-finance institutions) on
platform creation
•Organise platform meetings for
interactions
•Capacity building in basic
business management practices
•Capacity building in credit
management
D. MARKET INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Output Activities
Market •Assessment/evaluation of business
inform- enterprises of VCAs
ation
•Data collection on prices/market trends
system
devel- •Collation and analysis of data
•Create a database of price and market
oped
and
information
operat- •Develop communication system for MIS
ional
via media, cell phones, internet,
information centres
COSTS AND FINANCING
Component
Cost (GHS)
1. Equipment support
60m
60%
2. Capacity building
5m
5%
3. Credit support system
30m
30%
4. Market information
system
Total
5m
5%
100m
100%
IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY
• An inception workshop to launch project
• Identification of stakeholders to discuss
components and guidelines for implementation
• Development of work plans and budgets
• Development of operational manual
• Development and implementation of M&E
system
PROJECT ORGANIZATION AND
MANAGEMENT
NRDS Coordinating Unit
National Rice Quality Control Unit
Regional Rice Quality Control Unit
District Rice Quality Control Unit
Zonal Rice Quality Control Unit
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
• Coordinate and manage project
• Periodic monitoring, evaluation and
review of project activities
• Periodic reports on activities carried out
• Acquisition and supervised distribution of
logistic support
RISKS AND ASSUMPTIONS
•
•
•
•
Timely availability of funds
Commitment of current and successive Gov’ts
Favourable agro-climatic conditions
Commitment of project implementation
partners
• Good bilateral relations continue to exist
between Ghana and development partners
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
PROJECT 2
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF
DOMESTIC RICE –
INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Main objective
• To develop strategic infrastructure for storage,
processing, marketing and distribution of
quality rice
Specific Objectives
• To provide appropriate storage/warehousing
facilities for paddy and milled rice
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONT’D
• To provide threshing and drying patios for
sustained production of quality rice
• To provide adequate access roads, water,
electricity and communication facilities to
rice producing and processing areas
• To develop rice commodity markets at
strategic locations across the country
• Development of rice commodity markets
COMPONENTS
1. Storage facilities/warehousing development
2. Drying patios construction
3. Access roads and utility services development
4. Commodity market development
STORAGE FACILITY/
WAREHOUSING DEV’T
Output
Storage
structures
rehab./
constructed
Activities
•Assessment of conditions and
capacities of existing storage structures
•Zone and map producing/processing
areas for equitable citing of storage
structures
Capacity
building
•Training in maintenance of storage
structures
•Capacity building in warehouse mng’t
DRYING PATIOS CONSTRUCTION
Output
Activities
Drying patios •Zone and map
constructed/ producing/processing areas for
rehabilitated equitable citing of patios
•Evaluate bids and award
contracts
ACCESS ROADS AND UTILITY
SERVICES DEVELOPMENT
Output
Activities
Access
•Identify, map out and cost
roads
potential farm tracts, feeder and
constructed trunk roads
•Evaluate and award contracts
Utility
•Identify, map out and cost
services
potential utility services needed
provided
•Evaluate and award contracts
COMMODITY MARKET DEVELOPMENT
Output
Activities
Rice
commodity
market
established
Rice value
chain
developed
•Identify, map out and potential market
sites
•Develop market structures
•Undertake market feasibility studies
•Facilitate formation of VCAs
•Build capacity of actors on GAPs,
GHPs, GMPs
COSTS AND FINANCING
Component
Cost
(GHS)
1 Storage facility/warehousing
support
2 Construction of drying patios
60m
60%
5m
5%
3 Dev’t of roads and utility services 30m
30%
4 Dev’t of rice commodity markets
5%
Total
5m
100m 100%
IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY
• An inception workshop to launch project
• Identification of stakeholders to discuss
components and guidelines for implementation
• Development of work plans and budgets
• Development of operational manual
• Development and implementation of M&E
system
PROJECT ORGANIZATION AND
MANAGEMENT
NRDS Coordinating Unit
National Rice Quality Control Unit
Regional Rice Quality Control Unit
District Rice Quality Control Unit
Zonal Rice Quality Control Unit
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
• Coordinate and manage project
• Periodic monitoring, evaluation and review of
project activities
• Periodic reports on activities carried out
• Acquisition and supervised distribution of
logistic support
RISKS AND ASSUMPTIONS
• Timely availability of funds
• Commitment of current and successive
Governments
• Favourable agro-climatic conditions
• Commitment of project implementation
partners
• Good bilateral relations continue to exist
between Ghana and development partners