The development objective of the State of Maharashtra Agribusiness and Rural Transformation Project for India is to support the development of inclusive and competitive agriculture value chains, focusing on smallholder farmers and agri-entrepreneurs in Maharashtra. The project comprises of four components. The first component, enhancing institutional capacity to support agricultural transformation objective is to strengthen institutional capabilities of the nodal government departments and agencies of the Government of Maharashtra (GoM) to more effectively support agricultural transformation in the state. It consists of following sub-components: (i) enhancing institutional capacity of the department of agriculture (DOA); (ii) enhancing institutional capacity of the directorate of marketing (DOM); and (iii) strengthening capacity for reform measures and joint actions.
