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Production-Marketing Strategies Project

Production-Marketing Strategies Project . Botorou Ouendeba, John Sanders, NiabaTeme and Mamourou Diourte . Objectives. Increase grain yields and improve incomes of sorghum and millet growers Facilitate the formation of sustainable farmers’ groups

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Production-Marketing Strategies Project

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  1. Production-Marketing Strategies Project Botorou Ouendeba, John Sanders, NiabaTeme and Mamourou Diourte

  2. Objectives • Increase grain yields and improve incomes of sorghum and millet growers • Facilitate the formation of sustainable farmers’ groups • Diffuse concept of technology-marketing project

  3. Yield (t/ha), Production (1000t) and Area (1000ha) harvested for Millet and Sorghum

  4. Sources of Funding • 2003-2004: INTSORMIL • 2005-2007: AID-Regional (Mali, Niger and Senegal ) • From 2008: New agreement with USAID-Mali

  5. Introduce new agricultural technologies on farmers’ fields • - Inorganic fertilizers • - Water harvesting techniques • - Improved cultivar/treated seeds

  6. Project strategy • Partners: Research Institutions, Extension services, Farmers’ Organizations, NGO • Selection of villages; yr1: 50 ha. No more than 1 ha/farmer; yr2: 100 ha; yr3: 150 ha • Project provides input credits to be repaid to the Farmers’ groups in kind at harvest • Technical monitoring • Grain stored by the group until the post harvest price recovery; then cereals are sold and funds used to purchase inputs for the next season

  7. Area (ha) in New Technologies: 2007-2009

  8. Area (ha) in New Technologies in Mali for the 2007-2009 Period

  9. Very tall sorghum cultivar (local)

  10. Caudatum type grown in Kolokani and G. Camara (Kayes)

  11. Short improved sorghum cultivar (Grinkan in Garasso/Koutiala, 2009)

  12. Marketing Strategies • Response to harvest price collapse. Farmers’ groups acquire part of the harvest and sell later. Inventory credit for individual farmers operated through farmers’ groups • Response to good weather price collapse. New market. Processed food and feed. Bring in food and feed scientists in program • Increase bargaining power of farmers’ groups. Buy inputs cheaper and sell grain for more

  13. Project Activities • Introduce new agricultural technologies on farmers’ fields • Introduce a series of marketing strategies to farmers’ organizations • Develop farmers’ organizations (business methods, transparency, cooperatives systems) • Build ties between farmers’ organizations and food and feed processors. • Diffuse concept of technology-Marketing-Farmers organizations

  14. Processed food markets • Principal complaint: dirty grain. In our interviews with Malian millet/sorghum food processors they estimate an average of 13% impurities in millet purchases. Goes as high as 25% (Bulletin) • Get millet threshing off the ground; use tarps and sieves • Processors can thus reduce the time of the cleaning operation and they also get 13% more grain.

  15. Incentives: payment of the price premium • Processors ready to pay 10 fcfa/kg • Resist paying for the extra 13% of grain • Need to build up confidence and long term relationships with farmers’ groups to increase the supply over time of clean grain: Tingoni and Mopti in the future

  16. Contributions in the Processing Sector • “Transformation commerciale du Mil et du Sorgho au Mali in 2007” • Workshop in 2008: sorghum and millet processing; Hotel Plaza, August 2008 • “Production intensive de Poulets au Mali en 2009”

  17. Tableau 4: Taux d’impuretés des grains livrés aux unités de transformation à Bamako, Mali

  18. Program Evaluation • Technology and Price Effects are determined each year • Results are reported in a Bulletin every year;

  19. Project Team and Dr Bahiru (USAID-Washington) in Wallo/Douwanza

  20. Production and Marketing Project Mali Progam in 2010 • Provide technical support to the IICEM initiatives in Koutiala and Segou regions • Adapt the Project to the lower resource base regions: Mopti and Kayes • Develop a system with IICEM to organize the construction of storage facilities

  21. Old and New Area (ha) in the Project and in Associated projects with IICEM in Mali, 2010

  22. Garasso/Koutiala/Mali: Grinkan 2009 crop season (Bougouna and JS)

  23. Garasso/Koutiala: Grinkan 2009 crop season (Bougouna and farmers): seed production in an isolated field. Farmers do rouging each week before the heading of the sorghum

  24. A group of women disappointed with the quality of seed purchased in Kaniko: more than 85% of tall plants (local cultivar). They applied per hectare 50 kg of DAP and 50 kg of Urea. The plants were already showing the fertilizer effect

  25. Zanzoni/Koutiala/Mali: Field planted with poor seed of Grinkan in 2009; large number of tall plants (off types).

  26. Women group standing in their own field in Wallo village; enjoying their experience with a fertilized millet; they expect a yield higher than 1000 kg/ha.

  27. Zanzoni/Koutiala: meeting with the farmers in 2009 and a nice gift from the chief of the village.

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