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Enhancing skills and infrastructure of smallholders in quality cotton production by December 2014 Quality cotton produced by farmers in the project area. Create awareness to 900 farmers about international sanitary and phytosanitary standards of cotton production procedures 1 awareness campaign per village Cotton farmers increase knowledge and skills on cotton quality as desired by customers. To be evaluated after the end of the project Promote the use of cotton picking and collecting bags 2700 cotton picking& collecting bags distributed Cotton farmers in the project area abandon the use of PP bags and that they sell their produce to the specified storage Those who got the bags abandon PP bags. However need some arrangement to make the cotton picking bags locally available at the market. Construction of one cotton warehouses each villages 3 cotton warehouses constructed Improve cotton quality monitoring and control: Establishing of quality control committee 3 quality control committees established ,3 training session on quality management and control conducted Number of farmers doing sorting and grading of cotton increase. To be evaluated august 2014 Strengthening linkages among service providers and cotton farming communities from the stage up to post-harvest management. Stakeholders relationship improved Involvement of ginners in maintaining on-farm demonstration plot Kgs of cotton seed for planting, acre packs of insecticides, Kgs of fertilizers, pump and extension services offered by ginners in demo plots Ginners actively supply inputs to demo plots and extend loans to needy farmers through their FBGs Attained Develop a contractual relationship (supply of inputs and sells of seed cotton) Amount of inputs given on loan Paying premium price for good picked and sorted cotton Kgs of seed cotton paid premium Farmers improve cotton handling To be assessed November 2014 Conduct a stakeholder workshop for experience sharing and lesson learnt 1 stakeholder workshop. Project managed and Project coordination and managements 1 project coordinator and two ginners field officers Monitor project progress and report on 18 monthly reports The project is properly