Name of Client: Rural Areas Economic Development Programme Implementation Unit” State Institution

Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment:

  • Development of brochures and booklets. Booklets shall provide general information about the lending product offered by RFF, targeting, and purpose of loans. Brochures shall provide general information to farmers about the 7 crops selected under the feasibility study (properties, planting, yields, management, approximate cost range, maturing etc.).

Technical Consultancy and undertaking field visits. It is expected that the Consultant would provide direct technical consultancy to farmers who take or intend to take  loans to establish orchards, such technical consultancy being provided either in the field or from the home office.  The objective of such technical consultancy is to assist the farmer in 1) deciding whether to take a loan for orchard establishment; ii) successfully establish an orchard.