Project to help farmers market their produce launched

The agro-business development scheme fashioned Katalyst with a three-year new phase aims at reaching over 1.4 million farmers and small rural traders to increase their accumulated income by $263 million, the project officials and donors said at its launching Thursday.
Katalyst will support rural poor entrepreneurs to get access to market and facilitate efforts to benefit the poor farmers' income by market development, said Siroco Messerli, programme manager of Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, a donor.   
Launched as Agri-business for Trade Competitive Project (ATCP) but branded as Katalyst, the programme will be implemented jointly by the donors and the commerce ministry from 2014 to 2017. The earlier two phases were completed between 2002 and 2013
The two other donors are Danida, Embassy of Denmark, and UKAid. The launching ceremony was held in a hotel in the capital.