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PIRAS Country Update: Tonga - IFAD
Publication | 15 December 2022
PIRAS Country Update: Tonga
The Pacific Islands Rural and Agriculture Stimulus Facility (PIRAS) supports COVID-19 food system and economic recovery by prioritizing food self-reliance, improving local nutrition and developing sustainable, equitable agricultural livelihood opportunities for rural communities.
Across 62 communities in Tonga, PIRAS tackles the urgent agricultural needs emerging from the January 2022 Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption and tsunami by:
- Providing working capital for land preparation;
- Establishing nurseries and demonstration plots;
- Providing farmers with agricultural inputs;
- Providing technical training on vegetable growing, seed and seedling production, direct propagation, composting and improved farming practices.
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