15 UAP Members
Agricultural Producers’ Associations (APA)
2000-
private agricultural enterprises, ordinary members,
15000 - associate members of APA (physical persons),
720000 ha – size of lands farmed by ordinary members,
45% of the size of agricultural lands of the Republic
of Moldova,
1700
- new jobs created,
19-Affiliated Structures of APA' s and Union
Last update 19.05.04
General
Prezentation of UAP activities
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ACSA is an organization created at the national
level carrying out its activity on the entire territory of the Republic
of Moldova and registered with the Ministry of Justice in March
2001. ACSA member-founders are: Association of Rural Extension Consultants
ACE-Rural, Private Farmers Assistance Program, National Farmers
Federation from Moldova, National Federation of Savings and Credit
Associations, Republican Union of Agricultural Producers’
Associations “Uniagroprotect”, RISP-Support Project
funded by DFID and implemented by the consulting company Landell
Mills. The goal of the Agency is to support the private agriculture
by creating and developing a national network of service-providers
in information, training and consultation for agricultural producers.
Activities:
a) creation of a national extension network in
rural communities:
ACSA network of service-providers is created on
a competition basis following the scheme of competitive grants.
Currently, ACSA has a network consisting of a total number of 30
consultation service-providers with a total number of 360 consultants,
out of which 60 regional and 300 local consultants placed within
the mayors’ offices. The teams of consultants are represented
in all 11 counties of the republic, out of which 9 counties have
3 service providers each, and in Gagauzia TAU there are 2 service
providers and one in Taraclia. Currently, citizens of over 50% of
all existing mayors’ offices have access to consultation,
information and training services.
b) ACSA clients and services provided:
The main ACSA client cultivates a total area of
about 3.0 ha of farmland, has a cow, three pigs and up to 40 fowls.
The main source of income is agriculture and for the overwhelming
majority of the population the annual income is about 10.000 lei.
In 2002 and the fist half of 2003, ACSA had about 350000 clients
that benefited from over 160000 oral one-to-one consultations, 8000
written consultations, 20500 on-site visits, 2750 seminars and 1880
round tables. Most of the information and consultation services
were provided in the area of technologies, economic issues, agricultural
marketing, as well as legal and social problems.
c) Training programs:
Throughout 2001-2003, ACSA implemented the following
training programs:
• Basic training of the selected consultants.
The length of the program is 96 hours and it includes many modules,
such as crop-growing technologies, cattle-breeding technologies,
land legislation and contractual relations in agriculture, management
of agricultural enterprises, agricultural marketing and other topics.
Over 220 regional and local consultants participated in the training.
• Extension methodologies. The training length is 24 and 40
hours depending on the target group. About 180 regional and local
consultants, members of 18 service-providers participated in the
training.
• Agricultural marketing. This program consisting of 40 training
hours was attended by 20 regional consultants and 36 local consultants.
• Training of trainers (TOT). The TOT includes 24 hours and
is designed for regional coordinators, ACSA executive division employees
and ACSA national team of consultants participating as trainers
in the information/training program. About 80 persons participate
annually in this program.
About 50 persons representing agriculture scientific
and educational institutions, Ministry of Agriculture departments
and other ministries, NGOs and commercial companies, private consultants
and foreign experts participated as trainers in the given program.
To read more about ACSA, click www.acsa.md
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