Project Name:
AgriServi - Research for semi-commercial farm database.
Description:
AgriServi is changing the way poor people thinks about farming .We promote sustainable agriculture through the idea that semi-commercial farming is the only way to make positive outcomes possible.
Through our operating system, Agriservi links Donors and Beneficiaries and expert worker groups with each other. Our team of 4 people visits the different areas to organize farmer information days and then to explain the concept of semi-commercial farming. We concentrate on the benefits of semi-commercial farming versus the normal subsistence farming that most people are used to. We also identify the needs of the farming communities and work with them on issues like planning for the future and to protect themselves against drought periods that is so much part of their lives. .
Location:
Mozambique, Inhambane Province in the areas of Unguana, Pambara and Mabothi
Sector:
Semi – commercial farming
Duration:
2 months
Dollar value:
USD 11000
Responsible Workgroup:
AgriServi
Main beneficiaries:
Projects that come through the research will benefit thousands of people
Project Goal:
To register 60 semi-commercial farms within the period of 2 months (September and October)
Objectives:
To strengthen the concept of successful semi-commercial farming.
Outcomes:
- Empower subsistence farmers to become semi-commercial farmers.
- Enhanced productivity and income
- Increased potential to bring livelihood into the farming sector and to reduce the total risk of the farming enterprise.
- Increased protection against droughts
- Triggering of agricultural transformation.
Impact on Poverty:
Semi-commercial farming will bring stability into the farming environment of the people of Mozambique. Farming will become a profession and not merely something that you do to provide food for your family. Semi-commercial farming has got the potential to protect people during drought cycles. At present the average yearly income of a small holder farm is between USD 500 to USD 1300. Semi-commercial farming will raise this income substantially and have an enormous impact on the reduction of poverty.
Calculation of Project costs per month:
- Fuel and Transport - USD 1000
- Accommodation – USD 500
- Cost of 24 Information days. – USD 1000
- Salaries and Wages – USD 3000
Total = USD 5500
Total over 2 months = USD 11000
Who is the AgriServi Team ?
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Abraham van Tonder Luciano Gove Alex Xhosa Phillipe Mari
Expert agricultural work group:
The work group is not a beneficiary Group, but only the link between the donor and the beneficiary. An Agricultural expert Work Group consists of normal young Mozambique men and women with a proven record of hard intelligent work and enough expertise and organising ability to fulfil their task. The Agricultural work group is goal orientated and available to assist in the rural development of the Agricultural sector of Mozambique. The Work group identified alternative forms of direct donor support to Agriculture projects or qualifying beneficiaries. The primary goal of the work group is to assist in the development of semi-commercial farms.
The AgriServi expert Work Group consists of normal young Mozambique men and women with a proven record of hard intelligent work and enough expertise and organizing ability to fulfill their task.
The work group is goal orientated and available to assist in the rural development of the Agricultural sector of Mozambique, and more specific in the building of semi-commercial farms among the poor.
The group can fulfill, more or less, any task assigned to them. We also make use of outside contractors, especially when it comes to the use of bigger equipment or specialized jobs.
Our experience specifically stretched into strategic planning; budgeting ; operating within financial disciplines; administration ; practical farming in both modern- and basic farming techniques ; modern and basic irrigation systems , fertilizer application and crop protection ; developing of new crops and planning of new farms or projects ; building of infrastructure ; upgrading of existing farms and projects .
Skills Base
- Irrigation, application of fertilizers, crop protection and manipulation.
- Registered technician for application of Chemical plant protection resources. AVCASA
- Registered technician for recommending and applying fertilizers. BASOS
- Erecting and running of nurseries and crop under protection.
- Equipped to enforce safety in the workplace according to NOSA standards.
- Building of infra structure, houses and irrigation systems.
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Where we work ? Inhambane Province , Mozambique
- Area of Pambara - GPS coordinates S21 54 05.2 E35 05 59.2
- Area of Ungwana - GPS coordinates S23 03 58.8 E35 16 13.5
- Area of Mabote - GPS coordinates S23 03 12.7 E34 08 15.6