KEY MESSAGES
- Description: Empresa de Comercialização Agrícola (ECA) works on the whole maize value chain, by providing seeds and inputs to producers, training them, then buying their production to sell it in the local
market
- Specificity: Empowerment of producers and will to transfer the company's ownership to the farmers
- Impact: +80% increase of harvests on average
FUNCTIONING
POSITIONING AS AN INTERMEDIARY TO PROTECT AND SUPPORT THE FARMERS:
Supply with a loan
> Supply at cost price of quality inputs and seeds for the farmers
Training
> Training at cost price of the beneficiaries to agriculture and sustainability
Purchase at fixed price
> Sales and prices secured for the farmers
Selling intermediary
> Sales to agribusiness companies, structure financed with the profits
SCOPE
MOZAMBIQUE
4 300 farmers
(of which 2 300 under contract)
BUDGET
$ 1,9 M in 2014
($ 1,4 M in 2013)
IMPACTS
Agricultural productivity
+80% increase of harvests on average
Climate change
Training to sustainable and conservation agriculture
Sustainable dev. goals
+90% of additional income on average per household
NEXT STEPS
Will to transfer ECA's ownership to beneciary farmers
