| ID: | 86280 |
|---|---|
| Country: | Tajikistan |
| Title: | Tajikistan - Community-based Agricultural Support Project (CASP) - October 2023 |
| Description: |
The Mohinav Village Organization (VO) in the Dusti district of southwestern Tajikistan’s Khatlon Region met with village residents to identify their community development priorities. Because accessing tractors and other agricultural machinery and operators had always been such a challenge for them, the villagers agreed that procuring agricultural machinery should be a top priority for them. Establishing women’s income generating groups was another. CASP provided tractors of different sizes, including the smaller hand-operated tillers shown here. The smaller machines are used in the fruit orchards and smaller plots where they can easily navigate around trees and in the smaller spaces. Larger tractors and their various attachments are used in the bigger, open fields. In the past, even if or when local farmers could find a tractor in a neighbouring community, the operator would come with delay and charge a high service fee. Now, the VO has the tractors they need and ready to provide services to members of the community whenever they need them. With the income earned from the agricultural machinery and contributions paid into the village organization’s budget by the women’s income generating groups, the village organization has been able to support some new activities. For example, it helped a group of women set up an income-generating activity weaving traditional rugs. The village organization bought yarn and tools and paid young men from the community to craft the weaving looms. The village organization has also sponsored a young woman with disability to start a handicraft business making and selling crocheted items. The Community-based Agriculture Support Project (CASP) stimulates inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction in rural Tajikistan. Its activities help communities and dehkan (smallholder) family farmers access productive infrastructure and services, leading to sustainable agricultural production, equitable income-generating opportunities, and improved living standards. CASP works with village organizations (VOs) to develop community-driven action plans that define their own improvement initiatives. Village-level participation in decision making is critical to the success of these plans and helps establish a sense of community ownership and cohesion. |
| Size: | 10.87 MB; 5472 x 3648 pixels; 463 x 309 mm (print at 300 DPI); 1448 x 965 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Show more details: | Didor Sadulloev |
| Copyright: | © IFAD/ Didor Sadulloev |
| Categories: | New from Near East, North Africa, Europe and Central Asia |
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