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Planning Office: Technical Cooperation
Project Name: Eswatini Emerging Fruit Tree Production and Marketing Guidance Project
Project status: Project in progress
Partner country: Eswatini
Plan contents:
China's friendly country Eswatini (hereinafter referred to as Shiwatini) relies on agriculture and animal husbandry as one of its main economic pillars. However, agricultural production activities focus on the single crop of sugarcane. Affected by the decline in international sugar prices and the cancellation of sugarcane trade preferential measures by the European Union, farmers' livelihoods have been severely affected. impact. In order to improve the diversification of agricultural production and farmers' income in Shiguo, CCICED introduced emerging crop technologies, guided Shiguo farmers in cultivating market-oriented crops such as bananas, guavas, red dragon fruits, papayas, and strawberries, and strengthened the development of the industrial chain and sales system. , successfully assisted 800 farmers to increase the income per hectare of cultivated land by 39.48% compared with the previous planting of sugar cane. In order to increase the development scale of Shiguo's designated fruit tree products and increase the proportion of overall fruit trees in the total agricultural output value, this plan continues to expand the production capacity of guava, red dragon fruit and strawberry and market the fruits with a strategy of focusing on domestic demand and supplementing by export. To improve the post-harvest processing technology of fruits, the focus of the work includes: (1) improving the stability of the production quantity and quality of promoted fruits; (2) establishing marketing strategies and work for promoting domestic and export fruits; (3) establishing a collection of emerging fruits for joint sales Mechanism and operation
Execution period (starting): 2024-01-01
Execution period (so far): 2027-12-31
Project goals:
1. Improve the stability of quantity and quality of fruit production;
2. Establish marketing strategies and work to promote domestic and export fruit products;
3. Establish a collection and joint sales mechanism and operation of emerging fruits
Execution unit:
Technical Mission in the Kingdom of Eswatini, Eswatini Agricultural Research Institute (MRS), Eswatini Water and Agricultural Development Office (ESWADE), Eswatini National Agricultural Marketing Board (NAMBoard)
Current progress:
By the end of March 2024, key projects completed in this plan include:
1. Expand the healthy fruit tree seedling supply system and produce a total of 21,993 fruit tree seedlings.
2. Provide guidance on the operation of a banana tissue culture laboratory, and train Shi Fang’s technical staff on their independent operation capabilities, completing the process of refining 6,511 banana seedlings.
3. Expand the fruit tree cultivation area, and add 0.2 hectares of strawberry promotion.
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