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Cereal-legume-livestock integration

Cereal-legume-livestock integration. Farmer-participatory testing of cereal-legume-livestock systems in the NGS Activities in three villages with 12 farmers in the moist Guinea savanna of northern Nigeria

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Cereal-legume-livestock integration

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  1. Cereal-legume-livestock integration • Farmer-participatory testing of cereal-legume-livestock systems in the NGS • Activities in three villages with 12 farmers in the moist Guinea savanna of northern Nigeria • Farmer control, continuous cereal, cereal/legume rotation (cowpea, soybean or groundnut), Stover feed to livestock & manure returned to field or export

  2. Cereal-legume-livestock integration

  3. Capacity building and technology transfer Capacity building • Group training on crop management, safe use of pesticides, soybean utilization, data collection & management • Graduate students (27 PhD & 22 MSc) Publications • 46 refereed journals • 5 book chapters • 24 Conference proceedings • 26 Conference abstracts

  4. Technology transfer WECAMAN in collaboration with SG2000 • Upgrading of the streak resistance level in the Quality Protein Maize (QPM) varieties (Obatanpa from Ghana, Susuma and DMRE-SR-W from Mozambique) • About 154 kg of seed of the upgraded QPM varieties were provided to NARS for on-farm testing and community-based seed production in 10 member countries of WECAMAN

  5. Technology transfer Cowpea based crop livestock systems • Over 1950 farmers participated in seed production of improved cowpea varieties, IT93K-452-1 and IT90K-277-2 and on-farm testing of improved cowpea-based crop-livestock systems in northern Nigeria Wonder beans • Two IITA bred cowpea varieties, IT 97K-568-18 and IT 97K-499 have been released by National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO), as CP-2 and CP-3 for general cultivation in Uganda. CP-2 is brown seeded and CP-3 is white seeded with yield potential over 2 t/ha and good cooking characteristics and taste. Farmers are calling them as wonder beans

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