Supporting farmer-managed seedenterprises in Mali—FARMSEM

E. Weltzien, M. Sidibe, S. Guindo, O. Traore, M. Sidibe, G. Coulibaly, S. Toure, F. Rattunde

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Africa RISING West Africa Project Annual Review and Planning

Meeting, Accra, Ghana, 24-25 March 2015

Outline

1. Background

2. Results from 2013 and 2014

3. Plans for 2015

• Training facilitators for trial implementation (All partners)

• Diversify seed enterprise and tree nursery options (ICRISAT, ICRAF, AVRDC)

• Information campaign on Integrated Striga and Soil fertility management

Background: An objective and year 1 activities in Africa RISING in Mali were:

Moving toward sustainable increases in on-farm productivity: Food crop diversity

Outcomes targeted(Dec 2011)

1. Opportunities for changes

2. Targeted Impacts

3. Facilitating farmers’ innovations in a systems’ context

4. Documenting and analysing changes

Changes we want to see

a. Sustainably increased productivity in farmers fields

b. Improved nutritional status of young children

c. Farmers’ capacity strengthened

• Capacity bldg. for seed sale for coops: sale of minipacks of 100g (100 F CFA)

• Creating Union of seed cooperatives

• Seed production skills, norms for certification

• Capacity to conduct variety trials for choosing new varieties for seed production, and creating demand for seed

• Grafting and other tree nursery techniques

Diversify seed enterprise and tree nursery options (ICRISAT, ICRAF, AVRDC)

No. of variety tests sown: Mali 2012

Crop #coops (B)

# test

#women

#coops (K)

# test

#women

Sorghum 6 21 10 7 32 4

Millet 7 21 1 6 26

Cowpea 4 28 9 4 14 14

Groundnut 8 26 18

Soybean 6 17 9

Maize 4 14

Vegetables (4)

8 67 51

• Seed production of farmer preferred varieties and hybrids

• Dissemination of seeds in the target areas (marketing and sale)

• Organisation/governance/ management

Objective: Improve availability and

use of seeds of new varieties of pearl

millet and sorghum in Mali .

Strategy: Strengthening capacity of seed cooperatives in the

FtF target zones (Koutiala and Mopti regions)

FARMSEM: Since June 2013

Cooperatives producing sorghum seedin the Koutiala area in 2014

Cooperative VillageCreationdate

WOMUKPO Karangana 1988

Jigissèmè M’Pèsssoba 2004

CEMK Kouatiala 2003

Sênêyiriwaton Kifosso 2007

Dounkafa Kintiéri

PDRN Koutiala 2007

Jigisèmè Nampossela 2010

Niêtasso Siramana 2007

Nipagnon Loutana 2006

Saniyaton Farakala 2005

Udouyena Sirakélé 2002

Tièssiriton Sirakélé 2004

UCPTC Koutiala 2003

CPCV Ngolonianasso 2013

• All Coops have statutes (except 1), have decision making organs and have held GA’swithin the last year

• Their primary objective is grain marketing

• They work with multiple partners: NGOs, WFP,

• Generally poorly equipped

• They work with multiple crops and varieties per crop

Diagnostics (Feb 2014) -summary

• Farmer managed variety trials, including relay crops

• Demonstration plots

• Hybrid and variety seed production

• Seed harvest and storage

• Seed marketing

• Collaboration with Rural Radio stations

• Accounting and finance management

• Cooperative management

Training programs conducted withseed cooperatives: How to …!

Thème de formation

Lieu de formation

Durée (Jour)

Nombre coopérative

Participants

Homme Femme Total

Connaissance des hybrides et production de leur semence

Koutiala 1 8 38 5 43

M'Pessoba 1 3 37 1 38

Farakala 1 1 3 20 23

Récolte et gestion poste récolte des semences mil et sorgho

Koutiala 1 5 28 13 41

Koutiala 1 8 34 3 37

Gestion financière des coopératives semenières

Koutiala 2 7 40 1 41

Koutiala 2 9 23 11 34

Valorisation des champs de démonstrations hybride pour la vente locale de semence

Farakala 1 1 15 29 44

Kiffosso 1 1 44 5 49

Koutiala 1 3 41 10 51

M’pessoba 1 2 17 10 27

Karangana 1 1 45 0 45

Connaissance des hybrides et moyens agronomiques pour augmenter la production du sorgho

Koutiala 2 7 29 6 35

Totals 16 16 423 120 543

Specific training programs organized for cooperatives, Koutiala

Variety Crop Type

Sales point, fixed

Seedday

Young seedsellers

Sale to projects/NGO’s Total sold

Fada Sorghum Hybrid 837 34 216 517 1604

Pablo Sorghum Hybrid 1623 24 236 815 2698

Sewa Sorghum Hybrid 515 10 316 310 1151

Grinkan Yèrèwolo

SorghumHybrid

373 373

Lata Sorghum OPV 55 55

Tièblé Sorghum OPV 358 3 205 566

Toroniou Millet OPV 864 20 75 600 1559

Total 4252 91 1216 2447 8006

Certified seed (kg) sold locally by the cooperatives(production of 2013-sold in 2014) in Koutiala area

Village Coopérative

Sorghum hybridsSorghum OPV

Millet OPV

CowpeaOPV

ContactPablo Fadda Sewa

Niele-ni

Jakum-be

Tieble Toroniou Wilibali

Kintieri Dunkafa 96 156 175 76907797Mpessoba Jigiseme 458 394 85 78445333Koutiala PDRN 1800 1139 100 600 420 300 74543117Kiffosso Seneyiriwaton 900 300 1000 900 1000 75348057Karangana Wongon 1728 938 300 73334205Sirakele Tiessiriton 189 390 78073714Farakala Saniyaton 90 100 65533134Nangola Noumpagnon 25 64619403Namponsela Jigisèmè 986 73176764

Namponsela Suturaton 102 73176764N'Golonianasso 3CPCV 120 69770726Total available (kg) 6374 2927 1100 600 900 420 2285 185

Certified Seed produced by the Koutiala cooperatives in 2014

2014 results from one ARDT SMS partner in Koutiala: CMDT

Some feedback:

MERCI

2014 Tests variétaux participativeRendement Graine (sacs 100kg/ha)

Sorgho Taille-Courte a Koutiala

Lassina

Konate

Mamadou

Dembele

Oumar

Tessougue

Zani

Daou

Zoumana

Coulibaly

Siaka

Coulibaly

Fadda 12A//Lata 25 23 25 24 37 13 27 59

Nansi ND07(SeydouC)Wak-124-v-3-Balla Berthe-v18 20 21 23 25 8 21 26

Lagri Lata//Grin-8-39-1-1 25 18 19 15 28 11 21 25

Samboni Lata//Samb-5-1-1-1 25 9 18 18 32 7 21 21

Lani Lata//Gnos-7-13-1-1 25 11 22 15 29 11 20 19

Dili Lata//Ridb-3-9-1-1 21 13 24 14 26 8 20 16

Essi Lata//SC566-6-44-1-1 21 19 16 18 22 10 19 14

Mamba SS07(MadouM)Ban-13-v-5-Balla Berthe-v23 12 17 21 21 7 19 12

Djala Lata//DouaG-1-2-1-1 20 8 20 18 27 9 19 10

Kalon 011-SB -F4DT-21 21 13 21 2 18 9

Peke SKone2012sel-pepVr-23 17 11 19 19 20 9 17 3

Pompi PopD08_452-4-Balla Berthe-v 21 9 20 14 22 12 17 1

Lango Lata//Ngol-3-6-1-1 18 10 18 11 26 7 16 -3

Magana 08-SB-D4-149 16 11 15 15 25 6 16 -4

Kosa 011-SB-F3DT-2-4 -P1 19 7 14 15 19 6 15 -13

Tieble CSM335 16 15 20 13 21 5 17

Heritabilite 0.64 0.80 0.74 0.21 0.88 0

Moyen

%

Superiorite

Kiffosso M'PessobaOumarbougou

PedigreeVariete

Tests Culinaires zone de Bougouni

Scores: 1=problématique, 2=bon, 3=très bon(Global=Couleur, Gout, Consistance)

Village Flola (n=73)

Varieté Gout Global

Soumalemba 2.8 2.9

Grinkan 2.7 2.8

Locale (Niodionani)

2.7 2.7

Mais 2.7 2.6

Pablo 2.6 2.4

F pr 0.24 <.001

Village Sibirila (n=72)

Varieté Gout Global

Mais 2.9 2.9

Fadda 2.7 2.8

Locale (Niodionani)

2.8 2.7

Pablo 2.7 2.7

Soumalemba 2.6 2.5

F pr 0.31 <.001