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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CNFA began implementation of its Private Farmer
Commercialization Program (PFCP) on February 1, 2001 with a 3-year
program goal of establishing 9 new agribusiness partnership projects
and adding 75 farm stores to the existing network of 10 stores.
The overall objective of the program is to contribute to accomplishing
USAID-Moldova SO 1.3-Accelerated Development and Growth of Private
Enterprises. To help meet this objective, the PFCP program is focused
on providing farmer access to input supplies, output-marketing support,
improved access to financial services and technical training. Marketing
and other technical assistance to Moldovan enterprises, processing
enterprises in particular, is also targeted in order to increase
their ability to export. This will ultimately increase the number
of jobs, increase demand for high quality raw materials and raise
farmer incomes. Implementation is done through Farm Store and Agribusiness
Partnership projects with support from CNFA's SED and Private Farmer
Credit programs. A brief description of each of the four programs
follows.
Agribusiness Partnerships
CNFA began implementing Agribusiness Partnership (AP) projects in
August 1996. The twenty projects developed thus far are supporting
the revitalization of Moldovan agriculture through rebuilding the
input supply infrastructure, improving marketing channels and encouraging
growers and processors to emphasize value added products. This innovative
program has lead to $25 million in new investment, created over
800 new jobs, generates $2.8 million in annual exports and is leading
to significant income increases for thousands of private Moldovan
farmers.
Farm Store Program
In October 1999, CNFA began the process of designing the Farm Store
Program, selecting potential partners and developing projects. Since
that pilot phase, the Farm Store Program has become a key component
of USAID-funded CNFA-Moldova activity, with a network of 85 stores
planned by the end of 2003. The farm stores are actually rural development
centers, containing training rooms, local NGOs and Savings and Credit
Associations, endeavoring to meet the 5 major needs of Moldova’s
private farmers: 1) Agricultural inputs, 2) Machinery, machinery
services, parts and maintenance, 3) Marketing assistance for agricultural
outputs, 4) Training, information and consultations from store agronomists
and local NGOs and 5) Access to store credit and small loans from
Savings and Credit Associations.
Small Enterprise Development
The Small Enterprise Development (SED) Program, also known as the
Agribusiness Volunteer Program, was initiated in October 1999, when
CNFA received a 4-year contract to implement the Farmer-to-Farmer
grant in Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus and South Africa. The mission
of the Small Enterprise Development Program is to empower disadvantaged
rural communities to increase income through entrepreneurship, private
and cooperative business development, and market access. SED’s
specialties include mobilizing American experts to provide training,
nurturing development of sustainable business training services,
and engaging established companies in expanding business with small-scale
farmers and enterprises.
USDA Commodity Monetization Program
Beginning in 1998, CNFA monetized two USDA provided commodities
in Moldova: 8,000 metric tons of soybean meal and 5,000 metric tons
of wheat. The sales of the commodities generated $531,304 of net
available proceeds for lending. The net available proceeds were
used to create the Private Farmer Credit Fund (PFCF), which is providing
loans to private farmers and private farmer groups through two Moldovan
commercial banks, Agroindbank and Fincombank, and the cooperatively–owned
Rural Finance Corporation (RFC).
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UAP is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political organization aimed at protecting the interests of private farmers.
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