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By Dr. Solomon Mengestu Addisu Abera Solomon Abeyi Fantahun Dereje May, 2012 EIAR

Application of TechFit for Prioritization of Feed Technologies in Smallholder Beef Production System. By Dr. Solomon Mengestu Addisu Abera Solomon Abeyi Fantahun Dereje May, 2012 EIAR. Overview of the production system. Introduction Adama and Arsi Negele Area

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By Dr. Solomon Mengestu Addisu Abera Solomon Abeyi Fantahun Dereje May, 2012 EIAR

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  1. Application of TechFit for Prioritization of Feed Technologies in Smallholder Beef Production System By Dr. Solomon Mengestu AddisuAbera Solomon Abeyi FantahunDereje May, 2012 EIAR

  2. Overview of the production system

  3. Introduction • Adama and ArsiNegele Area • Feed scarcity is a major problem that limits animal productivity, • Improvement in livestock productivity can be achieved by alleviating feed constraints, Issue • Farmers • Feed a constraint • Intervention needed • Researchers • Technology options • Basket of technologies available • The aim is to select the best bet feed technologies for particular site/selected villages of in Arsi and Adama Districts

  4. What is Techfit? A tool used to prioritize of feed technologies at site-level • TechFit is used to filter among the available technologies and prioritize best bet technologies from the available ones • Involves combining scores of technology and context attributes to arrive at an overall score for how a technology is likely to fit a particular context. • The tool it is still under refinement, for more use

  5. METHODOLOGY • Adama District • Kechema • WonjiKuriftu • ArsiNegele District • Ali Wayo • KersaIlala • Both Districts located in the Rift Valley

  6. METHODOLOGY Sites Selected Selection criteria AdamaArsiNegele KachemaWonjiKuriftu Ali WeyoKersaIlala • Proximity to woreda capital • Presence of Smallholder beef fattening activities

  7. Numbers of participants from all kebeles.

  8. Methodology of The TechFit Tool • Group discussion with farmers: • Kechema 20 (15 men and 5 women) • kuriftu 20 (11 men and 9 women) • Aliweyo 22 (15 men and 7 women) • KersaIlala 20 (15 men and 5 women) PRA Exercise • Scoring of the 5 tributes • Work with the farmers Assessment of the 5 tributes Filtering of Technologies • Follow the steps given in the Techfit technology filtering excel sheet • Ideas for Interventions select technologies based on score

  9. This preliminary study was conducted to score the context of farmers vis a vis land, labor, availability of cash, input delivery system, and skill of the farmer for technology adoption and demand of the technology for the above listed attributes.

  10. Match farmers’ context to technology If technology demands land => low score for land If farmers do not have or very small land holding => Low score for land

  11. Potential technologies were filtered using farmers context and technology attribute scores • Check list was used to collect information about the context attributes of farmers and the farmers gave scores to the context attributes • The collected data were fitted to TechFit template to rank the technologies. Ref: Excel Sheet • Feed technologies were evaluated based on 5 major attributes: land, labor, credit, input delivery system, and farmer skill.

  12. III. TECHNOLOGY FILTER (Technology options to address quantity, quality, seasonality issues) • Pre-filter available Technologies based on context relevance and impact potential • Context relevance (score 1-6; low-high) X Impact potential (score 1-6; low-high) = Total score (context X impact)

  13. Results and discussion TechFit-Beef Value Chain

  14. Technology filter • Technology options to address feed problem (list of technologies) After short listing first 3-4 technologies based on the Rank, go for cost benefit analysis of the selected ones • Pre-filter • Context relevance X Impact potential score

  15. Cost benefit analysis • What does the technology cost? • What does the technology deliver? • Is it worthwhile?

  16. Table 2 cont’d

  17. Final output • Indentify promising feed technologies that are likely to work • Better understanding of why and why not technologies work or do not work

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