Enhancing partnership among AfricaRISING, NAFAKA and TUBORESHE CHAKULA Programs for fast Tracking delivery and

scaling of agricultural technologies in Tanzania

Jonne Rodenburg, Senthilkumar Kalimuthu, Gaudiose Mujawamariya

Rice Team Leaders

Content• Summary description of key activities • Targets: numbers reached versus numbers targeted• Key Results: outputs and outcomes achieved• Partners: stakeholders participated• Reasons for any under-achievements or over-

achievements• Challenges and constraints• Lessons learned, e.g. Which activities are working

best? Which activities need improvement? What changes would you recommend?

• Planning for QRT4

Summary of Activities 20151. Demonstrating and developing a locally fabricated motorized paddy

weeder

2. Development of an electronic decision support tool for farmers to aid with weed management

3. Efficiency of soil and foliar applied micronutrients under three rice growing conditions and their economic implication to rice farmers

4. Farmer-participatory on-farm Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and weed management demonstrations in Kilombero and Kyela

5. Baseline & diagnostic surveys to generate data from all categories of value-chain actors

6. Train farmers and other value-chain actors and reinforce capacity to enhance efficiency along the value chain

7. Train technical staff of project staff, partners and collaborators and conduct experimental auctions in Morogoro

Demonstrating and developing a locally fabricated motorized paddy weeder

• Four weeders • 4 sites: Uyole (Mbeya); Msufini

(Kilombero), Lower Moshi Irrigation Scheme (Moshi), Dakawa (Morogoro)

• 2 demos per site (21 and 42 DAT)• 30 farmers per demo• Aim: to select a model (or

combination) to be developed into a first prototype

• Partners: Nafaka, MARI, KATC, Intermech, CAMARTEC, KATRIN, UARI

Development of an electronic decision support tool for farmers to aid with weed management

• Baptized ‘RiceAdvice – weeds’• High similarity and

complementarity with RiceAdvice – soils

• Base-model produced• Work plan developed with Co-

capacity• Approach discussed and

determined• Testing & Demos with Nafaka in

Kilombero• Partners: Nafaka, Co-capacity

Soil and foliar applied micro nutrition in rice: efficiency and economic benefits

30 on-farm demos in TZ

Irrigated lowland (10)Rainfed lowland (10)Upland (10)

3 Reference treatments5 Foliar nutrient products1 Soil micro nutrient

2 blocks No NPKNPK @ 80:40:40 kg ha–1

GAP demonstratoins in Kilombero30 on-farm trials - all in rainfed lowland environments

GAP component technologies introduced to the farmers1) certified seeds of variety Saro 5 2) field bunding and leveling 3) dibble sowing in line4) optimum & timely use of fertilizers (NPK)

Partners: KATRIN, Nafaka

Parasitic weed management demos in Kyela • 4 groups of 5 farmers per parasitic weed

species (Striga and Rhamphicarpa)

• Demonstration of 4 strategies (selected by farmers – Varieties, Soil fertility, Sowing date and in combination) against farmer practice

• On-farm and farmer managed

• Questionnaires are held at 2 moments during the season

• Farmer exchange visits (April & June)

• Partners: MARI

Targets

S/N INDICATOR FY TARGET

FY ACHIEVEMENT

% FY ACHIEVEMENT

% FEMALE % MALE

1 Number of farmers and others who have applied new technologies or management practices as a result of USG assistance

625 538 exposed of which 120 applied

19% 57% 43%

2 Number of rice hectares under improved technologies or management practices as a result of USG assistance

580 30 5%

3 Number of individuals who have received USG supported short-term agricultural sector productivity or food security training

725 130 18% 35% 65%

4 Number of food security private enterprises (for profit), producers organizations, water users associations, women's groups, trade and business associations, and community-based organizations (CBOs) receiving USG assistance

71 55 individuals (interviewed)

30% 70%

5 Number of rural households benefiting directly from USG interventions

775 339 43% 52% 48%

6 Number of beneficiaries with home gardens or alternate crops as a proxy for access to nutritious foods and income

149 - - - -

Key Results

• Motorized weeders:o 120 farmers, 23 extensionists, 13

engineers and 6 researchers trainedo Elements for locally improved weeders

identified: (1) weeder tines of Indian type, (2) floater and engine of Japanese type

• Decision support tool:o 52 weed management strategies

outlined, including 142 technologies … (ongoing)

o Programming started

Key Results• Foliar nutrition:

o 30 farmers trained on GAP/NPK+SMNo Soil applied micro-nutrient plots

(NPK+SMN) have best performance

• GAP testing & Parasitic weed control:o 30 farmers trained in GAPo 40 farmers trained in parasitic weed

controlo 75 farmers exposed to parasitic weed

control optionso Resistant NERICAs are preferred

varietieso Rice husks identified as free and useful

soil fertility amendment

PartnersPartner Location Contact person RoleNafaka Morogoro Silvanus Mruma Overall partner in all on-farm and value chain work

MARI Dar es Salaam Juma Kayeke Motorized paddy weeder development

KATC Moshi Dominik Nkollo Motorized paddy weeder demonstrations

KATRIN Ifakara Jerome Mghase - On-farm GAP work- Market and value chain work- Motorized paddy weeder demonstrations

CAMARTEC Arusha Godfrey Mwinama Motorized paddy weeder development

Intermech Morogoro Peter Chisawillo Motorized paddy weeder development and marketing

Uyole ARI Uyole - Ndabhemeye Mulengera- Dennis Tippe

- Motorized paddy weeder demonstrations- On-farm parasitic weed control demos in Kyela

Cholima ARI Dakawa Ndimubandi Mvukiye Motorized paddy weeder demonstrations

IFDC/VFRC Washington Prem Bindraban Soil & Foliar nutrient application work

Co-capacity Wageningen (Netherlands)

Joost Lieshout Programmer of RiceAdvice-weeds

ARI Ilonga Kilosa Elisha Mkandya Baseline surveyMarket and value chain work

Planning QRT4• First version of weed management decision support

tool ready• Report on motorized rotary weeder demonstrations

finalized, data analyzed and way forward discussed with Intermech

• Demonstration plots parasitic weed management harvested and data collection finalized

• Reporting on GAP and Soil & Foliar applied micronutrients demos

Baseline survey and crop protection analyses

Socio-econ. baseline study:• Village selection: 32 villages

in Kilombero• Survey in 15 villages

o 10 households per village

• Including post-harvest actors• Partners: Nafaka, ARI Ilonga

Crop protection analyses:• 68 stakeholders in southern

highlands are interviewed• Government agencies,

private sector, NGOs, farmers

• Aim: to provide a deeper understanding of organisation, functioning and strategies of crop protection services

• Partners: MARI

Market visits for experimental auctions• 2 markets, 1 supermarket• Most consumed varieties

Supa Ifakara & Supa Mbeya/Kyela • Preference criteria

aroma, taste, cleanness, % breakage, whiteness

• Price differences 200 to 800Tsh/kg across varieties100 to 500Tsh/kg for breakage &

whiteness • Home-use-tests of varieties to use

in EA• Partners: Nafaka

Key Results

• Baseline & diagnostic surveys to inform value chain enhancement• Entry of villages, respondents

and variety into Mlax system

Key Results

• Value chain work:o 2 marketing agents from RUDI and MVIWATA,

partners of Nafaka trained o Morogoro and Mawenzi marketso Participants:

o 131 consumers, including 22 men and 109 women

o Products:o Supa Kyela, Mbawambiri, IR05N221, Low quality market

riceo Low quality rice was the benchmark product

(1500TShs/Kg)

Key Results

• Value chain work:o Vickery auction: winner pays a second priceo 9 sessions of 15 participants (except 1st session)o 3 Individual sessions &1 collective session

Tasting the cooked rice Discussion in a collective session

Key Results

• Value chain work: 94% of the auctions participants prefer

aromatic varieties

Consumers express less preference for the improved aromatic rice due to the high percentage of broken grains

Growing aromatic varieties with good milling qualities followed by proper post-harvest handling creates a niche in the market

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Institutional challenges in crop protection services

• Reactive nature of plant health services identified:o Most attention for dealing with pest outbreaks and not

preventive strategies• Jurisdictional ambiguity between district crop protection

officers and regulatory agencies:o E.g. plant health services and the tropical pesticides

research institute (TPRI)• Weak linkages and structural incoherence between

research institutes under the ministry of agriculture and extension under local government ministry

• Insufficient capabilities and resources to support operations of the plant health services and extension.

Reasons for any under-achievements or over-achievements

• The rice team is achieving as planned on most of the activities

• The only activity where under-achievement can be observed is the capacity building of project staff; we have not been able yet to set a date, venue and list of participants of the IRM course

• We are currently over-achieving with the work on innovation systems as we have a new staff member on board (Dr Josey Kamanda) who is analyzing functioning of crop protection services

Challenges and constraints• Experimental Auctions:

o Supa Ifakara was not available, another local variety (Mbawambili) was used instead

o IR05N221(Komboka) was supplied instead of SARO5: part of the data cannot be used as intended and the experiment will have to be repeated as we are targeting SARO5

• Motorized weeders:o Some technical problems arose during demonstrations,

in particular the engine of the Indian typeo Weeder drums of the Japanese weeder need to to

adapted to local soil conditions by changing rotation direction

Lessons Learned

Which activities are working best?o All activities are working wello Partners are enthusiastic and cooperative o Soil applied micro nutrients better than foliar

applied

Which activities need improvement? o We have to work more on training project partner

staff

What changes would you recommend?o More emphasis on stakeholder participation and

communications and innovation systems (including the analyses of crop protection services)

Planning QRT4•Training of value chain actors

• identification of constraints and challenges to VC development and identify opportunities for an efficient production and marketing system.

• 15-17 July, Morogoro: Kilombero hub including Nafaka & Kahama (SARD-SC)

• Baseline data collection of the sampled households in the villages of rice marketing activities• 170 identified farmers and 185 other VC actors (including

millers, sellers, restaurants etc.)

• Multi-stakeholder platform meeting

Thanks - Asante