Post Harvest Handling and Storage Project

The USAID Post-Harvest Handling and Storage Project capitalizes on increased Rwandan food crop productivity to improve food security by linking smallholder staple crop surpluses to markets.

The project works with private sector agribusiness firms and processors to reduce post-harvest losses through investment in storage infrastructure and promotes improvement in the areas of post-harvest conditioning, grading, sorting and packaging.

Investment in storage facilities will free smallholders from the need to sell crops at harvest time, when prices are at their lowest.

At the same time, increasing the quality of crops for storage helps producers selling surpluses to compete domestically and regionally.