| What is SPFS CMP-II? |
| Special Program for Food Security and Productivity Enhancement of Small Farmers in 1012 Villages ( Crop Maximization Project-II). |
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| What is CMP-II? |
| Crop Maximization Project ( Phase II) |
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| What is the cost of this project? |
| Cost of the project is Rs 8013.522 million. |
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| What is the duration of this project? |
| The duration of the project is 5 years ( from July,2007 to June,2012) |
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| How many districts are covered by this project in the country? |
| The project is being implemented in 28 districts of Pakistan | Provinces | No. of Districts | | Punjab | 6 | | Sindh | 8 | | NWFP | 5 | | Balochistan | 5 | | AJK | 2 | | Northern Areas and FATA | 2 | | Total | 28 | |
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| What is the village distribution by provinces? |
| Provinces | No. of Districts | No. of Villages | | Punjab | 6 | 430 | | Sindh | 8 | 230 | | NWFP | 5 | 160 | | Balochistan | 5 | 150 | | AJK (State) | 2 | 40 | | FANA | 1 | 1 | | FATA | 1 | 1 | | Total | 28 | 1012 | |
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| What are the executing agencies of SPFS CMP-II? |
- Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Islamabad
- Government of the Punjab (Department of Agriculture)
- Government of Sindh (Department of Agriculture)
- Government of NWFP (Department of Agriculture)
- Government of Balochistan (Department of Agriculture)
- Government of AJK (Department of Agriculture)
- Northern Area and FATA (Department of Agriculture)
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| Who are the beneficiaries of SPFS? |
| Total number of beneficiaries will approximately be 350,000-400,000 small farmers belonging to about 50,000 to 60,000 households. They would be operating on about 450,000 to 500,000 acres of land in the project area. The project is technology based which would lead to provide technical assistance, skills and resources required for productivity enhancement and raising the income of small farmers. |
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| What are the main features os this project? |
- Focus on small farmers
- A village as production unit
- Multidisciplinary interventions with a potential of high return
- Implementations of the tested technology packages for improving farm productivity
- Commercialization of agriculture
- Public private partnership
- Intensification of extension services for prompt technical backstopping at village level
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| What are the project inputs? |
- Establishment of project implementation and management units and committees
- Organizing, training and empowerment of small farmers through social mobilization of farming communities
- Technical and financial capacity building
- Conducting benchmark surveys at project initiation and productivity data collection during each year of implementation
- Establishment of Revolving Fund at village level and providing production and development loans to small farmers through this village based fund
- Organizing farmers' field schools for training of farmers
- Establishment of small enterprises in each project village
- Developing horizontal and verical linkages of farmers community with main marketing chains
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| What is Food Security? |
Food security happens when all people at all times have physical and economic access to enough safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs according to their food preferences for an active and healthy life.
People suffer from long-term (chronic) and a short-term (transitory) food insecurity. The chronic food insecurity is a trend in food consumption that involves an inability to meet food requirements over a long period, while transitory food insecurity concerns shocks that briefly push the level of food consumption below the requirements. A household can be said to be food secure only if it has protection against both kinds of insecurity.
This is what the project titled “Special Program for Food Security and Productivity Enhancement of Small Farmers” is doing. Rather it is aiming at a step forward to achieving Food Sovereignty which is about defending the interests of not only present farming community but also of their next generation. The project aims at empowering the peasants and nurturing their skills, knowledge, and financial capacities to produce more from one unit area of land on sustainable basis with improved quality while simultaneously evolving an environment friendly agriculture system through adoption of good agricultural practices.
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