ADPP Guinea Bissau started the first Farmers Club in 2008. To this day Farmers Clubs have been implemented in Oio and Empada regions and 4.775 farmers in Oio and Empada have been trained. In 2016 to 2019, the farmers in Farmers’ Clubs have been engaged in Cashew production and processing. In 2020 the project aims at empowering small-scale farmers economically in Oio by raising the value-added of their products through processing and marketing activities.
The farmers participate in an organized Club Life, where they build their production capacities through: model fields for their farming practices, field visits by the project, the introduction of low-cost sustainable equipment, technical innovations, the exchange of collectively gained experiences and much more.The project will mobilize the two communities Binhome and Sormone to increase the rice and horticulture production. The project will work with the Farmers’ Clubs commercial association for the commercialization of the products, as well as for the microfinance.
