HATA Akihiko, Sanyu Consultants Inc., Japan
High profitability keeps attracting farmers, especially the next generation as we observe the senior farmers remain on cultivating while many youths are engaged in off-farm jobs in the villages of Upper Egypt. Improving Small-scale Farmers’ Market-oriented Agriculture Project (ISMAP), a technical cooperation of JICA, has developed an approach for small-scale farmers to develop their capacity for practicing farming as business from May 2104 to April 2019.
