Promoting Adoption of Chickpea Technologies in Southern Ethiopia

1. Promoting Adoption of Chickpea Technologies in Southern Ethiopia PACT

2. 1. Introduction • Agriculture - critical to the Ethiopian Economy • Policy commitment - agricultural driven economic development and food security through GTP(2011-15) • Strategic aims of the GTP • Enhancing productivity and production of smallholder farmers and pastoralists; • Reducing the number of chronically food insecure households • Tripling the number of farmers receiving relevant extension services, • more than doubling the production of major crops. PACT

3. Intro… • Pulses second most important staple after cereals (12% of cropland) • chickpea nutritious legume crop, • potential to improve both soil health and human nutrition. • Performing well on residual moisture, • allows two crops harvest in a growing season (PACT area) • cereal followed by chickpea boosting food supply and income. • However, chickpea varieties have traditionally been low yielding. • Despite high potential chickpea is not widely grown in southern Ethiopia PACT

4. Intro… • Collaborative research by Hawassa and Saskatchewan universities (call I) has identified four high yielding varieties, superior to local cultivars • Contribute to GTP -soil of nutrient, production/productivity, income and nutritional status of targeted farming households. • Research results can only contribute to the nation’s aspiration, if the technologies and knowledge generated are applied and adopted widely. • Critical question how to accelerate large-scale adoption • reach more farmers, particularly women, and • provide greater household food security and income • PACT designed as a pre-scaling research and development intervention . PACT

5. Intro… • Access to high quality seeds of improved varieties is a major limiting factor in large-scale adoption of chickpea. • Chickpea was not considered as viable option in southern Ethiopia . • Need for a unique research and extension approach to support large scale expansion of chickpea production. • Addressing bottlenecks, • poor management practices, • high production costs and • low productivity • PACT identified new areas for chickpea seed production and double cropping. PACT

6. Objective • Adapt and validate best practices for chickpea production within the region; • Test and compare successful models, strategies and system approaches for large scale adoption of chickpea production in the region; • Establish and operationalize multi-stakeholders partnership platform for large scale adoption of chickpeas in the southern highlands of Ethiopia; • Use research results to inform food security policies and programs in southern Ethiopia. PACT

7. 2. Methodology and approach • Partnership- HwU, UoS, RBoA, SARI, SSE, SFCOF • Initiating Participation of multi-stakeholders partnership platform • Project Steering Committee (PSC) • Project implementation Committee (PIC) at each project district • MoU- with designated roles and responsibilities PACT

8. Methodology … • Provision of knowledge and skill training • Training of trainers (ToT) to: • 6 district agricultural bureau officers • 6 agronomist, • 10 development agents, • 2 kebele-administrative staff PACT

9. Methodology… • 500 farmers (68 female ) –chickpea production and management • 738 farmers (115 female) post-harvest handling of chickpea • Extension methodology training • 24 participants (3 female) • Gender training • 42 participants (10 Female ). PACT

10. DAs and Farmers training PACT

11. Farmers skill training PACT

12. Methodology… • Provision of chickpea production inputs technology Package • 210 Qts seed, • 85.25 Qts DAP fertilizer, • 170 liter insecticide, • knapsack sprayers, motorcycles, bicycles, computers PACT

13. Methodology… PACT

14. Methodology… Field day at Meskan (21/11/13) PACT

15. Methodology… Field day at Sodo(14/12/13) PACT

16. Method… Policy makers field visit at Taba The policy makers appreciated the uniqueness of PACT initiative -double cropping Farmers Expressed the benefits obtained from chickpea introduction Requested for ensuring market arrangement for their yield. Their request was well taken by the participating policy makers. PACT

17. 3. Results • DEVELOPMENT outcomes • Multi-stakeholder platform established and operationalize – facilitate further scaling up reaching 30000 farmers in 3 years to come • Increased yield - from 3.1 t/ha to 1.4 t/ha - a total of 794 farmers (125 female)having about 0.25 ha plots were participated in improved variety seed production. • With an average of 3,1 tons/ha productivity of these varieties the total yield is estimated to be 615 tons (estimated)-259 tons (actual prepared for seed )-Green consumption and sale • covers demand up 10360 farmers for the coming growing season in the region • Sound local chickpea seed system established –regional seed self sufficiency PACT

18. Results “ in addition to food to my family I make income from sales of haricotbean produced last year” women farmer from choroko 1- Halaba 21/11/13 “the project enabled me to engage in chickpea production by my own” Women farmer- Gacheno –damotgale 21/11/13 PACT

19. Result… • Training sessions have improved knowledge and skill of farmers on chickpea production “My knowledge about pest management helped me to remove infected plants ,so that the disease did not attack my chickpea field” Women farmer from Gachenokebele- Field visit by PSC members PACT

20. Result “chickpea pea enables me to use my limited land efficiently- double crop harvest” RukiyaEsssa-women farmer from wachoebisokebele- Hulbareg District 4/01/14 PACT

21. Result… • Chickpea production manual – extension activities resource- for DAs and farmers at FTCs • GIS mapping for potential scaling up expansion planning- reaching 30000 farmers in 3 years to come • Six MSc students (3 females in gender and family studies) PACT

22. Result… • RESARCH findings • Locality based Variety adaptation verified to new districts (Hulbareg, Silti) • Inoculation plus chemical fertilizer application significantly increase the yield and yield components • Development pathways and extension models identified – three models from experiences of other interventions PACT

23. Farmers’ field participatory variety validation experiments PACT

24. Key messages • Multi-stakeholder platform brought relevant actors together – a model to the conventional extension service • Chickpea is a viable alternative crop bringing double crop harvest advantage to the southern region farmers • Sound local chickpea seed system established –regional seed self sufficiency PACT

25. 4. Policy implications • SSE- Sustaining chickpea seed system in both supply and demand sides. • commitment to conduct field inspection and laboratory test and to pay farmers 10-15% premium • The regional input agency of Bureau of agriculture to supervise and provide support in seed collection and redistribution process. • SFCOF- the issue of grain market – including export market- private partnership – input supply, storage, credit, processing • Cooperative (primary and unions) assembling and bulking at village level • Private sector partnership - Market linkage- local and export market PACT

26. Thank You PACT