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.