The project aims at:
- Addressing and removing the constraints in the rice production chain;
- Contributing to self-sufficiency, enhancing economic growth and increasing household income;
- Deploying integrated and complementary interventions that increase rice production and productivity, thereby increasing smallholder farmers’ income and reducing poverty and food insecurity;
- Strengthening human, social and institutional capacity for promoting profitable rice production, processing and marketing;
- Creating an enabling environment for agricultural enterprise development at the community level for the supply of competitive rice, rice-based products and rice by-products.