Quarterly Report: USAID-Inma Agribusiness Program, April-June 2010

The USAID-Inma Agribusiness Program focuses on developing Iraq’s private agribusinesses by facilitating the formation of fully-integrated value chains and improving agricultural quality and production. Inma, the Arabic word for ‘growth’, connects farmers to markets, increases the competitiveness of Iraqi agribusinesses, and facilitates domestic and foreign agricultural partnerships.

This report covers the 12th Quarter (Apr-Jun 2010) of the USAID-funded USAID-Inma Agribusiness Program in Iraq. It provides an update on the planned activities in the Annual Work Plan and on the outputs in the Performance Monitoring Plan. This quarter, USAID-Inma has entered the first complete harvest season where the results of the investment of the past two years are coming to fruition. They are setting the stage for the even greater challenge of sustaining these enterprises as the program enters its fourth year of implementation.