An office on agricultural service is operating in the Turkish Cypriot Community. The AGRI KOBI, located in Lefkosa, provides agricultural assistance to enterprises and producers with a staff of consultants and experts. The office team will provide technical assistance to agricultural enterprises and producers and do necessary research as well.
The operation of such an office is a motivating development which aims to strengthen productive and sustainable agriculture that contributes to the economic development in the TCC.
The defined PDPM project, supported by expert Mari Novak and local consultant Ali Tuzunkan, is to evolve Agri Kobi into a for-profit agricultural consulting firm. This is a challenging proposition. Agri Kobi has both the responsibility to carry out several ongoing funded projects, as well as work to establish itself as an independent entity. It must be ready to be self-sustaining in 9 months. The managers have been dedicated working in this direction.
There has been progress in defining clarity, and a determination that the ‘principles’ of good project management must be implemented. This led to a reexamination and agreement on objectives and deliverables; how information, reporting and feedback are handled, and control of resources by the project groups.
The awareness of the challenge toward sustainability and refinement of approaches has been made much clearer with a reference to PDPM methods. This is a valuable application. The AGRI KOBI office operates under the supervision of a consultant committee consisting of representatives from USAID EDGE, the European Union, UNDP-ACT, the Cyprus Turkish Chamber of Agricultural Engineers as well as other leading Turkish Cypriot authorities in agriculture.
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