Agribusiness Private Sector Landscape Analysis

The Activity focuses on developing productive and efficient agriculture systems, building the resilience of smallholder farmers, and improving the enabling environment for agriculture-led growth. The Activity's objective is to engage the private sector across selected value chains, including horticulture, to achieve sustainable and long-term agriculture-led growth. The Analysis provides an overview of private sector agribusinesses working in the Zone of Influence (ZOI), focusing on a short-listed horticulture value chain. The Agribusiness-Focused Private Sector Landscape Analysis identifies and assesses production capacity, upgrading potential, and investment needs of agribusinesses in the target value chains. The Analysis highlights high-value horticulture sectors, including early and late vegetables, apricots, and melons, as areas where the Activity can engage the private sector. The methodology involved an initial exploratory mission to the ZOI in December 2020, where the team facilitated inception meetings with value chain stakeholders to identify existing linkages and determine initial intervention areas. The team collected secondary data to identify trends in production among dekhan farmers and private sector businesses in the ZOI. The Analysis provides a summary of recommendations for the Activity's Leadership Team, including: 1. Distributing cold storage access to farmers. 2. Increasing access to improved varieties of high-value horticulture crops grown by ZOI farmers. 3. Increasing processing reach. 4. Increasing access to higher productivity. These recommendations aim to identify consistent constraints and disincentives for private sector investment in the target value chains. The Activity will use this analysis to issue targeted Inclusive Partnership Facility (IPF) RFPs/RFs/EOIs in the first year of the project to engage companies and entrepreneurs in solving key challenges identified in the report. The Activity's purpose will be achieved through three components: 1. Enhance productive agriculture systems. 2. Strengthen the resilience of vulnerable smallholders. 3. Improve the enabling environment. The Analysis provides an overview of private sector agribusinesses working in the ZOI, focusing on a short-listed horticulture value chain. The Activity will use this analysis to engage stakeholders in the ZOI and achieve sustainable and focused sustainability. The Feed the Future Tajikistan Agriculture and Land Governance Activity contributes to the USAID Global Food Security Strategy's top goals, including accelerated agriculture-led growth, better nutritional outcomes, improved food security, land tenure security, and improved water management. The Activity will ensure that women, youth, and youth in remote areas in remote areas in the Khatlon region are not left behind in the climb, integrating them into market-led opportunities in processing, value addition, and livelihood diversification.