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USAID | Afghanistan

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Afghanistan Farm Service Alliance (AFSA)

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Program
Agriculture (Comprehensive Agriculture and Alternative Development)
Dates
March 2008 - June 2012
Partners
CNFA

The objective of the AFSA project is to work with Afghan partners to develop farm service centers (FSCs), profit-oriented, privately-owned enterprises, intended to provide the agricultural inputs, services and market linkages Afghan farmers need to transition to successful commercial agriculture. USAID is helping create a model for a more efficient supply chain that can deliver sufficient qualities of high-quality product to farmers at lower costs, improving production and creating cost efficiencies. FSCs 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. AFSA’s initial two-year cooperative agreement ended on June 15, 2010, establishing a network of seven FSCs in Kabul, Ghazni, Hilmand, Kandahar, Laghman, Kunar, and Zabul provinces benefiting more than 48,000 Afghan farmers through increased access to agricultural inputs, training, and output markets. The AFSA project was extended for an additional two years to establish ten new FSCs in Nangarhar, Logar, Wardak, Parwan, Kapisa, Takhar, Kunduz, Balkh, Uruzgan, and Nimroz provinces to benefit an additional 35,000 Afghan farmers.

Fact Sheet AFSA Jun 2011


Announcements

Kabul Women's Farm Service Center Opens

31 August 2010 | Kabul, Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s women farmers will have more access to seeds, supplies, and materials thanks to the opening of the Women’s Farm Service Center in Kabul on...

In The News

Balkh Women’s Farm Service Center to Provide Supplies for Afghan Women Farmers

16 January 2012 | Balkh, Afghanistan

USAID/AFSA Staff at Women’s Farm Service Center in Mazar offers advice to a customer Balkh Women’s Farm Service Center officially opened today...