Since 2019, the AEC Agriculture Export Council signed an MOU with Knowledge Economy Foundation /Bashaier Platform to implement small farmers capacity building /training for certifying their farms for export; and to match the requirements of their members exporters.
A new program based on supplying small farmers the means to register online on Bashaier Platform app, their main farming procedures for irrigation, fertilizers and pesticides in their individual profile, was implemented successfully for the strawberries and guavas crops and will extend to the medicinal and aromatic herbs, with the aim to cover all export crops . This program is coupled with the promotion of contract farming schemes between exporters and farmers.
