Overview of IC projects Under Implementation 2006
 
Post Project Support Project for Horticulture Promotion (PHP)
  Intercooperation Pakistan Delegation Office, Peshawar.
H # 60, Street 9, Sector G-3, Phase II, Hayatabad Peshawar
icpakistan@pwr.comsats.net.pk

 
 
 Aim: To promote the profitability and sustainability of the horticulture sector, with special  emphases on  small producers and related entrepreneurs, women in marginal areas with a  potential to grow fruit  and / or vegetables
 
Phase I: 1988-90 (Orientation)
Phase II: 1990-93
Phase III: 1993-95
Phase IV: 1995-96
Phase V: 1996-99
Phase VI: 1999-2000 (Bridging)
Phase VII: 2000-2003 (Concluding)
PPS: 2003 – June 2006 (closed)

Implementing Partners:
. Agricultural Research System, NWFP
. Agricultural Extension Department, NWFP

 


The PHP project has operated since 1987 in Malakand Division of NWFP. In 1996 it was up-scaled to Provincial level. During Phase VII, the project decentralized its operational structure to the regions in the South, North, East and Centre of the Province. The institutional partners of the project included Agricultural Research System (ARS), Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), Federal Seed Certification and Registration Department (FSCRD). With its contracted partner, CABI-Bioscience, the PHP organized and executed a comprehensive Integrated Crop Management Programme. Quality and certified Vegetable Seed and Nursery Fruit Tree Production were also supported by the project. Two separate wings of Integrated Marketing Services department of the project have become self-funded service providers in NWFP, providing market & technical information and training, through their own networks. Discretionary funds enabled a multiple range of partners to execute small region specific projects in horticulture.

In the post project scenario, support was extended to its partners: a) to consolidate state of the art maintenance of three established Germ Plasm Units and their complementation with registered varieties b) to further internalize participatory extension methodology. This support came to an end in June 2006. Intercooperation in Pakistan is proud to retain valuable knowledge and innovative methodologies for its partner organizations and practices them in other on-going project interventions.