Making Vegetable Markets Work by Ye Htut, Grow Asia, Myanmar. Presented at the ReSAKSS-Asia - MIID conference "Evolving Agrifood Systems in Asia: Achieving food and nutrition security by 2030" on Oct 30-31, 2019 in Yangon, Myanmar.
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Making Vegetable Markets Work
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2. Making Vegetable Market Work –
What is it?
• Improve the vegetable market system for 15,000 smallholder farmers in
Southern Shan and Rakhine States
• Target #1 - 50% income increase for 11,250 farmers
• Target #2 - Increased terms of trade for 6,000 farmers
• June 2014 to March 2018
• Mercy Corps, Swisscontact, East-West Seed
• $5M in support from:
3. Market system deals
• Risk-sharing
• Additionality
• Neutrality
Large Micro, small,
medium
Civil society Total
9 27 3 39
6. Support to strengthen enabling environment
Internships &
graduate
sponsorships
Foundational
research
Exchange
visits & trade
fairs
Policy
dialogues
7. Overall results
25,000 farmers
$14.8M increased income
36 businesses
Greater speed and scale
Est. seed association
Improved seed policy
44% ERR on $5M project
Market systems learnings
10. System results
BUSINESS
• Greater brand awareness,
increased sales, and closer
relationships with farmers –
scale and speed
• “Helped us to establish
more rigorous processes
and plans”
ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
• Shift of opinion within the
Ministry of Agriculture on
potential for vegetable
sector
• National Seed Association
led to clarify and liberalized
seed policies
11. Learnings
Tailored design
Coordination at multiple
levels
Complementary
interventions
Productivity foundations
Devoted and influential
leaders
From the same playbook