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AGRICULTURE PROGRAM
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The
agriculture program focuses on poverty alleviation and improving
food security and nutrition. Across projects Winrock agriculture
is taking a business development services (BDS) or value-chain
approach. The BDS approach includes an emphasis on building
the capacity of supply chain enterprises to manufacture and
distribute agricultural equipment and inputs that are suitable
for smallholders, and establishing private sector market channels
that can efficiently aggregate smallholder production for national
and international markets. Winrock builds the capacity of private
enterprises to provide embedded training services to farmers
with the sale of inputs or the purchase of outputs. For example,
micro irrigation equipment dealers train farmers to use irrigation
systems that they sell and also provide agricultural advice
for system buyers.
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The Winrock Tea Alliance program under TCGDA hosted a visit from a team from Tazo Tea including CEO Steve Smith to market Nepal tea.
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Smallholder farmer using a drip system
promoted by Winrock's Nepal SIMI Project.
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The
Winrock approach includes providing technical assistance to
early technology adopters to create demand for business services.
Our approach also includes strong Public Private Partnerships
(PPP) with the government to ensure that public goods such as
market information, infrastructure, research, policy, water
source development, and other public services to improve sub
sector performance are supplied.
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