1. Establish a source of healthy, true-to-type and disease-free planting materials (pineapples, mangoes and passion fruits) for small holder farmers, based on a combination of tissue-culture and grafting techniques
2. Establish a cooperation business model for the distribution of planting materials to smallholder commercial farmers
3. Train smallholder commercial farmers to use best production practices and create business linkages between them and processing factories

1. Establish a source of healthy, true-to-type and disease-free planting materials (pineapples, mangoes and passion fruits) for small holder farmers, based on a combination of tissue-culture and grafting techniques
   • Selection of true to type starting material for initiation in the lab; the selection will be done in close cooperation with experienced pineapple farmers (Exonas, Milani, HPW, Billy Farms etc.) to make sure good material will be selected to start the production in the lab.
   • Diagnose the starting material for diseases relevant for the crop; Diagnosis will take place in the diagnostic laboratory from Iribov in The Netherlands.
   • Harden tissue culture plants and grow them into plants ready for field planting in a nursery operation
   • Produce Pineapple suckers in the designated sucker farm
   • Produce clonal rootstock from poly-embryonic seed for Mango
   • Produce grafted seedlings based on clonal rootstock for a range of selected Mango varieties
   • Produce rootstock from yellow skin varieties for Passion fruit
   • Produced grafted seedlings of purple skin varieties of Passion fruit
2. Establish a cooperation business model for the distribution of planting materials to smallholder commercial farmers
   • For Pineapple and Mango Iribov will cooperate with the company HPW Fresh&Dry Ltd.
   • For pineapple the cooperation will be mainly in the distribution of the suckers to the out-grower network of HPW. The establishment and management of the sucker farm will be a joint operation. They will provide the suckers to their farmers as an advance payment for the fruit. HPW is aiming on planting 3.5 million plants per year and their processing capacity is 3,600 ton per year. So their demand and capacity only will cover the objectives in this project.
   • For Mango the cooperation will be in getting access to new and improved varieties which are present in Ghana at 2 different demonstration farms which have been established in the past in a cooperation with Fairchild Botanical Gardens in USA. Those farms are lacking good maintenance, but HPW has started to take care of these farms and is currently collecting data on the performance of the varieties in Ghana. Besides this HPW will provide a network of Mango farmers which can take the improved Mango seedlings and HPW will also be a potential off-taker for those farmer once they are ready to harvest and sell their yield
   • For Passion fruit Iribov will cooperate with Exonas Ltd. Exonas will provide the purple skin varieties for tissue culture production and also the yellow skin varieties for the production of rootstock. Exonas has organic certified farmland which will be leased to smallholder farmers for farming fruits and other crops (in-grower scheme). The farming will be based on the principle of permaculture. Exonas will be taking the plant material to their farm field and organize the sales of the harvested yield to processors and exporters. The current capacity of Exonas on their own organic certified farmland is 5 ton per year and their plan is to grow to 20 ton per year by 2020.
   • Besides this, Iribov will set up an out grower scheme to involve more farmers in growing passion fruit for the rest of the planting material produced in this project. The aggregation and sales on their yield can be organized via the network of Exonas. At least 50 farmers will be enrolled in the out-grower scheme.
3. Train smallholder commercial farmers to use best production practices and create business linkages between them and processing factories
   • Distribute planting material to smallholder farmers
   • Connect smallholder famers to aggregate their yield as input for processing factory and/or exporters
   • Train smallholder farmers to help them adapt planting material from improved sources

The project will produce the following key deliverables at the end of the implementation period:

1. Off-taker agreement signed with processing / export company to buy-back produce from farmers
2. A total of 120,000 tissue-cultured pineapple plants produced (made of 80,000 MD2 and 40,000 Smooth Cayenne varieties)
3. A total of 2,880,000 MD2 and 520,000 Smooth Cayenne suckers produced
4. At least 3 million pineapple suckers distributed to at least 125 smallholder commercial farmers
5. A total of 30,000 grafted mango seedlings (of improved, disease-resistant and early-maturing variety such as Haden) produced and distributed to 100 smallholder commercial farmers
6. A total of 6,000 passion fruit seedlings (5,000 grafted and 1,000 tissue-cultured) and distributed to at least 50 smallholder commercial farmers, yielding a total of 50 tons of fruits and delivering a combined total of at least EUR 65,000 in sales revenue (export and local markets) to the farmers at first production cycle.