Lentil Disease Control The USAID/Bangladesh Feed the Future (FtF) Rice and Diversified Crops (RDC) activity is designed to catalyze market system changes that promote a diversified farm management approach oriented to intensified rice production and higher-value, nutrient-rich crops to increase incomes and improve food security and nutrition in the Khulna, Barisal, and southern districts of Dhaka divisions of Bangladesh (FtF zone). RDC’s goal is to increase rural incomes by catalyzing a process that leads to competitive and inclusive rice based market systems. RDC aims to facilitate strategic, market system-strengthening interventions to improve rice intensification and diversification. Lentil, a nutritionally important part of diets in Bangladesh, are currently badly damaged every year by root and leaf diseases. Controlling these diseases would significantly increase grain yield increasing farm income and making lentil production in Bangladesh competitive with cheaper imported lentils. RDC is inviting companies to apply for funding to finance the testing of innovative ways of controlling, disseminating information to farmers about how to control and improving farmers access to products that can safely be used by farmers to control these diseases. Applicants will be asked to present a description of the:
The applicants can find an application for funding form at the following web site: click here. Applicants must complete all sections of the request for funding application form and submit it to the following email address info@acdivocardc.org by September 30th, 2018 * Issuance of this request for concept papers in no way constitutes a commitment by RDC to execute any agreement or to pay any costs incurred by firms that respond to this request. |
