Sion Services: SION Women's Rice Value Addition Project

Sector: Rice production and processing.Beneficiaries: ~300 women producers.Description: This project will enable SION to:.- Activity 1: Pre-finance the purchase of improved seeds, fertilizers and paddy rice from farmers.- Activity 2: Acquire and install a semi-industrial paddy rice processing line with logistical support to supply the factory and deliver product to market.- Activity 3: Improve the organization of women producers and parboilers of paddy to facilitate group purchases (Suppliers/Partners).- Activity 4: Recruit an accountant.- Activity 5: Training of employees on good paddy processing practices

Source: United States African Development Foundation, IATI activity data via the IATI Bulk Data Service, published under Creative Commons CCZero (cc-zero, as registered on the IATI Registry) (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Read from https://bulk-data.iatistandard.org/usadf/usadf-cotedivoire.xml. Reshaped by All Business Africa into this record; amounts and currency are as the funder states them.