ITB: Providing Access to Market Information and E-Commerce Trading Platforms for Smallholder Sales Decisions -For local suppliers (Албания - Тендер #70174342)

Description

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is implementing a food security project funded by the European Union (EU). The EU food security response in Northern Ghana project is promoting crop-specific, agro-ecological systems and approaches and support the sustainable development of maize, millet, sorghum, soyabean, groundnut, vegetables (tomato), poultry and piggery value chains. In selected project locations, direct agricultural inputs provision, accompanied by support to climate-adapted agricultural practices, provision of improved grain storage technologies, training on good agronomic and post-harvest practices, promotion of organic fertilizers use, provision of solar powered irrigation solutions and application of other climate sensitive and sustainable Agri-techniques, promotion of integrated pests and diseases management approaches and facilitation of access to market as well as value addition for crops produced will help in resolving some of the production and post-harvest bottlenecks and contribute to achieving food security, and enhanced resilience to shocks and disasters. To achieve its objective of sustainable development of maize, millet, sorghum, soyabean, groundnut, vegetables (tomato), poultry and piggery value chains a tender must be launched to identify potential service providers to update farmers on market prices, text SMS on prices in select markets provided to 144 farmers within the contract period. Supporting documents attached.