Afghanistan Farm Service Alliance (AFSA)
AFSA will establish a network of six farm service centers (FSCs) in six targeted provinces: Ghazni, Hilmand, Kandahar, Laghman, Kunar, and Zabul, benefiting over 20,000 Afghan farmers through increased access to agricultural inputs, training and output markets. The FSCs will be profit-oriented, privately owned enterprises intended to provide the agricultural inputs, services, and market linkages Afghan farmers need to transition to successful commercial agriculture.
In Year One, ASFA will establish two large-scale “hubs” in Ghazni and Kandahar. The CNFA Team will also focus on building and training groups of partners for the smaller retail FSCs in the first year, while establishing a model for those centers to replicate and a reliable wholesale source of inventory with the opening of the larger hubs. The four smaller FSCs will open in year two.
By working with Afghan partners to develop FSCs that are responsive to all agricultural communities’ needs, AFSA will help create a model for a more efficient supply chain that can deliver sufficient quantities of high quality product to farmers at lower costs, improving production and creating cost efficiencies. These centers will also serve as a node for producer access to market and technical information, output markets, and trade and working capital financing to address the multiplicity of challenges facing Afghanistan’s rural farmers.
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