- Over 430,000 rural smallholder farmers now benefiting from improved markets across the country.
- Over 270,000 rural farmers are accessing improved markets across the ‘new’ thematic areas of environment, business and finance, agricultural diversification and agricultural technology.
- 88 private sector partners doing better business with smallholders and rural Zambians as their suppliers, customers and clients.
- Over 1,000 new points of market access established in 2017 delivering improved market services to smallholder communities across the country.
- $10m leveraged in private capital in 2018 through investment in distribution and aggregation networks in the smallholder market.
- All districts in Zambia now show evidence of direct investment in the smallholder market by agribusiness.
- 51 per cent of farmers across all the thematic areas have observed an increase in the number of buyers and suppliers of agricultural products and services in their communities.
- 74 per cent of farmers claim they feel encouraged to invest more in their own production as a result of improved supply chain relationships with agribusiness.
- 39 per cen of farmers who participated in improved marketing channels indicate that they had seen increases in productivity and production as a result of this participation.
- 67 per cent of farmers felt that their engagement in ‘improved markets’ had led to improvements in their incomes.
Agricultural inputs market
- Over 400,000 farmers now accessing inputs from reputable, identifiable sources that bundle high quality inputs and technical advisory services.
- 450 field training sessions for farmers were conducted.
- 1,620 stockists trained.
- Over 500 crop demonstrations and field days were held in 10 provinces and attended by
- Over 13,300 smallholder farmers (10,400 males, 2,900 females).
Business and financial services
241 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have been engaged and have accessed business development services to improve their market performance. These SMEs supply products and services to over 200,000 rural farmers.
Agricultural technology
Agricultural technology demonstration sites have been set up across the country which has pushed up agriculture technology sales .
80 access points offering irrigation technologies
34 access points offering mechanisation services
25 access points offering post-harvest technologies
All with an average outreach of 150,000 smallholder farmers
Agricultural diversification
286 new agricultural access points were opened in 2018.
Crops: 202 access points
Livestock market: 61 access points
Outreach to nearly 72,000 smallholder farmers.
MUSIKA facilitated the development of a robust private sector veterinary product distribution and service provision market impacting over 62,800 smallholders (16 per cent women) around the country. 14 companies were partnered with to provide this service
Green energy markets
943 environmental market access points offering solar and irrigation products in rural communities established countrywide.
60,000 farmers benefit from these access points countrywide.