MCD/08/015 - Pepper sorting, grading and packing equipment

Objective: Improvement of post-harvest handling and trade of peppers.

Background: The association has 50 members (beneficiaries include their farming families) from the village of Recica, who are producing on a total area of 20-25 ha of open field pepper production. Average age in the farming family is 42 years old. All of the members

Use of Funds: It is proposed that the 1% grant is used for construction of a conveyor system running under and to the sides of the existing conveyors, removing the other three classes and waste out of the building. It will pay for the procurement of parts for the sorti

Beneficiaries: 50