The Project is set to benefit around one and half million people of the South West Region. The major outputs of the project include: (i) increased yield of the targeted value chain crops in the range of 30-70%; (ii) increased percentage (30-80%) of processed production of target crops through improved technologies; (iii) increased access to rural infrastructure (290 km of rural roads, 20 small scale irrigation schemes, 30 rural market centers, and 30 road-side farm gate hangers); (iv) training of 10,000 farmers in improved agricultural production techniques, processing and marketing practices; (v) providing institutional support and capacity building to 70 farmer cooperatives and other community based organizations; and (vi) strengthening the capacity of national institutions to better delivery of development results. To avoid spreading Project resources too thin in order to ensure a greater impact, the intervention of the Project has been concentrated in the production basins along the principal road corridors of the Region. These corridors are: the Bamenda – Mamfe – Ekok, the Kumba – Mamfe, the Mutengene – Kumba; Mutengene –Idenau, the Loum- Tombel – Kumba – Mundemba and the isolated rice and potatoes production basin of Akwaya and Nkongle respectively.
The total surface area of project intervention is estimated at about 14,500 km2 with a population of about 1.5 million inhabitants
and touching about 600 communities out of the 960 that make the South West Region. The Project area has an active youth, representing about 60% and 52% of the overall population are women.