THE AGRICULTURAL AGGREGATION

The agricultural aggregation is an model for organizing farmers around private actors or professional organizations with federating and managerial capacities. It makes it possible to overcome constraints related to the fragmentation of landholdings, while ensuring that aggregated farms can benefit from modern production techniques, access financing, and reach both domestic and international markets.
The agricultural aggregation is a win–win partnership between the upstream production sector and the downstream commercial and industrial sector, based on contracts that clearly define the commitments of both parties within the framework of well-identified agricultural aggregation projects.

The agricultural aggregation is governed by a set of legislative and regulatory texts aimed at organizing relations between aggregators and aggregate farmers within the framework of clearly defined agricultural projects. This system seeks to secure transactions between stakeholders, particularly at the commercial level.

In parallel with agricultural aggregation, the Agency for Agricultural Development promotes other organizational models that can contribute to achieving the set objectives, particularly with regard to grouping small producers to improve their access to markets. In this context, and with the support of the World Bank, the Agency for Agricultural Development, in coordination with the Directorate for the Development of Production Chains and the relevant Regional Directorates of Agriculture, launched two pilot projects of Productive Alliances.
The “productive alliance” approach encourages the creation of a partnership between a group of producers and a buyer, supported by the State. Once organized, producer groups conclude a commercial agreement with the buyer, based on the business plans developed within the framework of the project. The State plays the role of a partner in the implementation of the project, with the active contribution of the beneficiary groups.