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Published By: Admin on: 2011-11-21
To identify and prioritise the potential value chains within the HVAP project areas that HVAP will focus on, first for detailed value chain analysis studies and then for value chain development, a Value Chain Prioritisation Workshop was held at Birendranagar, Surkhet on 10-11 May 2011, in a collaborative approach with the involvement of various stakeholders using a defined set of criteria. Forty participants representing producers/cooperatives, sub-national private sectors/agribusiness organisations, government agencies and I/NGOs representatives besides the HVAP team participated in the workshop.
The value chain selection was a three step process in which 52 potential value chains were identified/listed in the first stage (i.e. VCs identified by SNV/DoA study in 2009, VCs with emerging market demands, and VCs recommended by the workshop participants). The listed value chains were then pre-selected based on their market and impact potential using the VC short-listing matrix. Finally, the 20 VCs with high market and high impact potential were further evaluated against seven sets of VC ranking criteria and sub criteria including social inclusion and climate change adaptation.
The workshop prioritised 20 value chains namely off-season tomato, goat meat, apple, honey, ginger, Zanthoxylum (Timur), orange/citrus fruit, potato, vegetable seed, poultry, cauliflower/cabbage, dairy and dairy products, essential oil (Sugandhwal & Jatamansi), off-season onion, turmeric, green bean/pea pod, garlic, butter tree (Chiuri), red/green chilly and walnut.