Afghanistan Agriculture Inputs Project

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The Project: The project objective is being achieved through: (i) strengthening capacity in the value chain for producing certified wheat seed; (ii) preventing marketing of banned, hazardous, sub-standard, and unreliable pesticides and fertilizers; (iii) lowering the risk of introduction and spread of plant quarantine pests into the country; and (iv) improving farmers’ access to agricultural inputs of reliable quality.

Project Results: 

• Increased wheat seed multiplication factors, ratio of foundation seed to breeder seed increased from 14 to 26, and ratio of registered seed to foundation seed increased from 9.6 to 23;
• Increase annual production of certified seed by Private Seed Enterprises from 24,000 to 30,000;
• Improved listing of plant quarantine pests and diseases;
• 180 product samples tested for pesticides residues;
• 105 bad pesticide samples intercepted by the end of the project.