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Zambia

Products:
1. Paprika
2. Birds' eye chili
3. Manketi
4. Moringa
5. Lemongrass
6. Mushrooms
7. Specialty vegetables

Projects:
1. Partnership for Food Industry Development - Natural Proudts (PFID-NP)

2. IITA-Irrigation Support Project

3. Initiative to End Hunger in Africa (IEHA)

Partners:
1. Sun International Hotel
2. University of Zambia (UNZA)
3. Total Land Care (TLC)
4. Nanga Irrigation
5. Msekera Research Station
6. Chitedze Research Station

Promoters:
1. USAID
2. USAID-Southern Africa
 
South Africa

Products:
1. Rooibos Tea
2. Honeybush Tea
3. Specialty Vegetables and Herbs
4. Small Fruits
5. Mushrooms

Projects: 
1. IITA Natural Products Project
2. IITA Horticulture Network 
3. Partnership for Food Industry Development (PFID-NP)
4. Limpopo Agribusiness Project 
5. Tshwaraganang Hydroponics
6. Doringbaai Greenhouse Project
7. Moroletsoa Mentorship and Technology Transfer Project
8. Haarlem Honeybush Tea Project
9. Oudtshoorn Hydroponics Project
1.. Eden Community Project
11. ALO/IITA Germplasm Projects

Partners:
1. University of Stellenbosch
2. IITA
3. Total Land Care

Promoters:
1. USAID
2. USAID-Southern Africa
3. National Development Authority
4. Department of Economic Development and Tourism
5. Department of Agriculture and Land Reform
6. Limpopo Agribusiness Development Authority
 
Senegal

Products:
1. Hibiscus (Bissap)
2. Kinkeliba (Healing Tree)
 
Porjects: 
1. Partnership for Food Industry Development (PFID-NP)
2. ASNAPP-Association Education Sante (AES) Hibiscus Project

Partners:
1. Association Education Sante (AES)

Promoters:
1. Government of Senegal
2. USAID
 
Rwanda

Products:
1. Geranium
2. Lemongrass
3. Eucalyptus
4. Rosemary
5. Manketti
 
Projects:
1. Ikirezi Natural Products
2. Ikirezi Plantlets Project
3. Essential Oils Project
 
Partners:
1. World Relief

Promoters:
1. African Development Foundation
2. Ministere de l'Agriculture et de l'Elevage (MINAGRI)
3. USAID/Global Development Alliance (GDA)
 
Ghana
Products:
1. Griffonia
2. Voacanga
3. Grains of Paradise (GOP)
4. Xylopia
5. Mondia
6. Lippia

Projects:
1. Partnership for Food Industry Development (PFID-NP)
2. Botanical Product Standards Development
3. Capacity Building Program for Botanical Products Association 
4. Enterprise Information System and Business Development Project
5. Alternative Livelihood for Forest-Fringe Communities
6. National Educational Campaign for Sustainable Practices in the Botanical Industry
7. Natural Products for Rural Livelihood Improvement 
 
Partners:
1.Trade and Investment Program for a Competitive Export Economy (TIPCEE)
2. Ghana Standards Board
3. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
4. University of Ghana
5. Rural Development and Youth Association (RUDEYA)

Promoters:
1. USAID
2. Trade and Investment Program for a Competitive Export Economy (TIPCEE)
3. Export Development and Investment Fund (EDIF)
4. Forestry Commission
5. Support Program for Enterprise Empowerment and Development (SPEED)
6. InterChurch Organization for Development Cooperation (ICCO-Netherlands)
 

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One year later, Tshwaraganang project pushes up profit Print E-mail
Written by Hanson Arthur   
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Tshwaraganang
The Tshwaraganang hydroponics project in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa, one of the mentorship develelopment programs of ASNAPP has posted further increases in income following its restructuring about a year ago. As at June 30 2009, the project had cumulatively achieved R617 067.25  (US$67 148.41) as direct income to its beneficiaries since October 2008 when they began selling produce. For a community that only about a year ago earned almost nothing, this income is a giant step towards worth creation and the elimination of food insecurity from their ranks.

After being officially registered as a Sectoin 21 company in 2005, the project had remained dormant until May 2008 when ASNAPP emerged as the preferred organization to implement a training and mentorship program for the project beneficiaries. This was at the instance of the Department of Agricultural and Land Reform (Northern Cape Province, South Africa) which had placed the project on tender. The department had,  in years past, appointted several consultants to recommend a restructuring mechanism for the project in order to create jobs for the teeming masses of unemployed people within the province. ASNAPP after winning the tender instituted measures to operate the project as a business concern, the results of which is manifested by the consistent monthly profits being attained in recent times.

Critical to the success of Tshwaraganang is the marketing linkages brokered by ASNAPP with leading supermarket chains within the region. Freshmark in Bloemfontein has signed a suplly agreement with Tshwaraganang, having formally registered the project as one of its permanent supply sources. An elaborate harvesting and transportation regime has been drawn that will see a supply of between 5 000 and 7 000 cucumbers to Freshmark per week. This is only about a third to half of the total 15 000 cucumbers per week required by Freshmark. Tshwaraganang is therefore poised to increase supply to bridge this gap. The outcome can only be further upward movement of the income chart! 

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