Tajikistan

  1. Project Name: Support to Seed Industry Development in Tajikistan
Name of Client: Sida
Period: May 2007 – December 2010
Value of project (in millions US$): 6.4 M
Name of lead company: NIRAS Sweden AB
Key Experts: Rutger Persson, Team Leader
                    Per Andersson, Technical Director and Seed Training Expert
Brief Description of Project:
To create a seed sector in Tajikistan which works according to internationally accepted standards, enabling it to produce and market high-quality seed of modern varieties, in a limited number of priority crops for Tajik farmers. The specific objectives for sub-component A are to:
§ Strengthen institutional and regulatory structures and services relating to the seed industry, through a process of capacity enhancement, rationalisation and restructuring.
§  Raise the operational standards of variety testing and plant quarantine services to international standards.
§ Improve seed production, processing and marketing practices and techniques in order to improve output and quality as well as operational and financial performance
§ Make available quality seeds or rootstocks of priority crops by strengthening the marked-driven seed supply chain.
§ Assist the public and emerging private plant breeding programs to implement a plant breeding program (developed together with SLU) with the aim of producing modern commercial varieties of the priority crops wheat, cotton and lucern and esparcet.
§ Assist the MoA, institutes and other actors in formulating a strategy (developed together with SLU) for the future sustainable structure of plant breeding.
§ Assist and engage a new generation of plant breeders, in close contact with the SLU-TAU cooperation for higher education in plant breeding.
 
 
  1. Project Name: Support to the Seed Industry Development in Tajikistan
Country: Tajikistan
Name of Client: Sida
Period: April 2004 – April 2007
Value of project (in millions US$): 3.6 M
Name of lead company: Scanagri, Sweden
Key Experts: Rutger Persson, Team Leader
                    Per Andersson, Technical Support
                    Bengt Uppström, Technical Support
Brief Description of Project:
To create a seed sector in Tajikistan which works according to internationally accepted standards, enabling it to produce high-quality seed of improved varieties for Tajik farmers. The specific objectives for sub-component A are to:
§ Strengthen institutional and regulatory structures and services relating to the seed industry, through a process of capacity enhancement, rationalisation and restructuring.
§ Raise the operational standards of certification and quality control services to international OECD, ISTA, UPOV and ISF standards.
§ Improve management practices and techniques on seed farms in order to improve output and quality as well as operational and financial performance.
§ Improve seed processing and marketing services so as to create a competitive situation in which farms have a choice.
§ Make available quality seed or rootstocks of other crops while improving production and marketing (refers to non-cereal crops).
The specific objective for sub-component B is to develop and implement a plant breeding program, with the aim of producing new commercial varieties in a few selected crops and attracting a new generation of plant breeders.