1 / 7

Optimizing Rice and Vegetable Production through Integrated Technologies in East Africa

This project focuses on enhancing rice and vegetable production systems by addressing major constraints such as pests, soil fertility, water access, and post-harvest losses. Leveraging a combination of technologies, including community-based seed systems, integrated crop management, improved water management techniques like drip irrigation, and small-scale mechanization, we aim to facilitate sustainable agricultural practices. Collaborative research activities, stakeholder engagement, and demonstrations will be conducted to evaluate the efficacy of these technologies in improving productivity and market access for farmers.

marnin
Télécharger la présentation

Optimizing Rice and Vegetable Production through Integrated Technologies in East Africa

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Group: Rice-based systemsJoe Tindwa, Danny Coyne, Victor Afari-Sefa, Bakari Kaoneka, George Mhina, SilvestSamali, Jonne Rodenburg

  2. What combination of technologies would potentially fit in this system (bearing constraints in mind)? Vegetable production constraints Rice production constraints Weeds (incl. wild rice) Pests (incl. birds) & diseases Soil fertility Water Harvest & post harvest losses The big five production constraints • Input access (e.g. quality seeds) • Pests & diseases • Water access • Post harvest • Markets

  3. What combination of technologies would potentially fit in this system (bearing constraints in mind)? Technologies addressing major constraints using GAP • Community-based seed and seedling systems • Improved cv’s, good quality and clean seeds, healthy seedlings, promotion of good planting methods (e.g. timing, land preparation) • Integrated crop management • Timing of operations, cropping sequences (rotations), labour-saving technologies, small-mechanization • Water-management • WUE-enhancing technologies (e.g. drip irrigation, AWD/aerobic rice systems), water harvesting/ water conservation (e.g. bunding, ridging) • Harvest and post-harvest handling • Small mechanization (e.g. harvesters, threshers), improved packaging, grading and standardization • Markets • Warehouse receipt systems, farmer organizations to improve market access, farmer access to dedicated markets (avoiding trader’s and elevated prices), food quality and safety standards

  4. What tangible research activities should we undertake to test if our combination fits this system? NOW? • Assess current situation – ex-ante impact study, incl. biophysical constraint assessment: yield gap, diagnostic and base-line surveys (NOW) (AfricaRice already developed surveys for this) • Establish Multi-Stakeholder Platform (MSP)’s for stakeholder/farmer meetings to assess resources, constraints, needs and opportunities in terms of intensification & diversification (NOW) … along the value chain… • Community sensitization and training/awareness (NOW) • Demonstrations and evaluation of seed and seedling systems (NOW) • Community-based demonstration trials on rice-vegetable(-livestock) integrated systems (NOW) • Water management demo trials (NOW) • Mechanization: introduction, evaluation (NOW) (and adaptation) • Participatory variety evaluation (rice and vegetables) (NOW) • Introducing and evaluating improved post harvest handling practices (e.g. packaging, processing) (NOW) • Economic analyses and farmer evaluation exercises (now) • Establish farmer groups and dedicated markets (NOW)

  5. Who should be part of the research team?PARTNERS • Farmer organizations • ARI’s: IITA, AfricaRice, AVRDC, ILRI • DALDO’s of Kilombero and Mvomero • HORTI-Tengeru • TPRI • SUA • KATRIN and Dakawa - ARI

  6. Who could we partner with?COLLABORATORS • NAFAKA • Agro dealers • Seed suppliers/companies • KATC • Intermech Engineering • CAMARTEC • MAFC • SIDO • NGO’s • US universities (…)

  7. Africa RISING’s Niche-Integrated Research • Crop • Soil • Livestock • CropSoil√ • CropLivestock √ • SoilLivestock √ • CropSoilLivestock √ 1. Crop/Shrubs/Tree 5 4 7 6 3.Livestock 2. Soil/Water

More Related