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(Table 9-9 Continued) Particular Topic State Village Men Women Total Traders/ Seed storage, processing Andhra ARS, Tandur 77 - 77 Dal Mill and marketing Pradesh ParvathpallyBasheerabad, 5 - 5 operators Ranga Reddy ChandravanchaKosgi, 4 - 4 Mahaboobnagar Scientific storage, store Maharashtra Committee Hall, Dr. PDKV, 125 - 125 grain pest management and value addition of Akola KrishiVidyan Kendra, Karda 201 - 201 pigeon pea KrishiVidyan Kendra, Durgapur 121 - 121 Farmer’s Pigeonpea seed Maharashtra KVK, Karda, Washim 961 - 961 Meeting production programme KVK, Durgapur, Akola 767 - 767 Farmers Farmer’s Fair Andhra ARS, Tandur 3400 1100 4500 Field Days Pradesh Kokat, Ranga Reddy 21 17 38 Sangamkurdu, Ranga Reddy 19 12 31 Nagasamunder, Ranga Reddy 16 3 19 Kodangal, Mahaboobnagar 24 18 42 Maharashtra KVK, Karda, Washim 936 - 936 KVK, Durgapur, Akola 771 - 771 Wanoja, Washim 39 2 41 Wadap, Washim 42 1 43 Field exposure at ICRISAT KVK, Durgapur, Akola 50 - 50 KVK, Karda, Washim 25 - 25 Total 12,374 1,740 14,114 Seed distribution of farmer-preferred varieties In support to seed multiplication of farmer seed growers, ARS-Tandur distributed a total of 1,000 samples of Asha seed (3 kg/sample) and 1,200 samples of PRG-158 seeds (2 kg/sample) in Ranga Reddy and Mahaboobnagar districts, respectively, during farmers’ field days. In Maharashtra, PDKV-Akola distributed small seed packets (1 kg/sample) of various farmer-preferred varieties of pigeonpea to 1,866 farmers also during farmers’ field days. Awareness activities through print and electronic media Pigeonpea seed production manual in local language PDKV-Akola, in association with ICRISAT, prepared pigeonpea manuals on seed production (500 copies) and crop management (500 copies) in Marathi. ANGRAU-Tandur, likewise, published and distributed 3,500 copies of manuals on pigeonpea seed production and IPM technologies in Telugu. Enhancing local-level awareness of released varieties Pamphlets on Asha (ICPL 87119) variety were published in Telugu and distributed to farmers in Andhra Pradesh during farmers’ fairs. In Maharashtra, farmers were encouraged to follow crop management practices through the distribution of 5,000 pamphlets on seed production practices and insect pest management in Marathi by PDKV-Akola. Local print and electronic media In Maharashtra, 20 articles regarding the conduct of field days, training programs, visits of the ICRISAT scientists and exposure visit of farmers to ICRISAT, Hyderabad and targeted villages were published in local newspapers. These were also covered by three local radio stations and one local TV station for wider circulation of the project activities and gains among the farmers. In Andhra Pradesh, five local TV stations telecast information on pigeonpea varieties and crop management technologies. 204 Engaging Smallholder Farmers | Tropical Legumes II Project
Enhancing Pigeonpea Productivity and Production in Eastern and Southern Africa NVPRG Rao, Said N Silim, Franklin Simtowe (ICRISAT-Nairobi); Moses Siambi, Emmanuel S Monyo (ICRISAT-Malawi); Stephen Lyimo, Rose Ubwe, Frank Mbando (SARI-Arusha, Tanzania); Joseph Mligo (ARI-Ilonga, Tanzania); Geoffrey AD Kananji, Francis W. Maideni (DARS-Lilongwe, Malawi) Summary In ESA, Tanzanian and Malawian NARS implemented the pigeonpea research and development activities in close partnership with ICRISAT-Nairobi, farmers, NGOs, CBOs and all other major stakeholders. The project was implemented in Babati (Manyara Region), Karatu (Arusha Region) and Kilosa (Morogoro Region) districts of Tanzania. In Malawi, on-farm research and promotion activities were carried out in 14 districts spanning from Southern (Balaka, Blantyre, Machinga, Mwanza, Zomba), Central (Kasungu, Mchinji, Ntcheu, Ntchisi, Salima), and Northern (Chitipa, Karonga, Mzimba, Rumphi) regions during the Phase 1. During this phase, a major success was on fast tracking the release of two medium duration pigeonpea varieties (ICEAP 00557 and ICEAP 01514/15) in Malawi. The new releases in Malawi were a landmark because there had been no released medium duration pigeonpea varieties in the past. With this, the number of pigeonpea varieties released in Malawi rose to six (2 short, 2 medium and 2 long duration group). In Tanzania, 2 medium (ICEAP 00554, and ICEAP 00557) and 2 long duration varieties (ICEAP 00053 and ICEAP 00932) are being evaluated under National Performance Trials (NPT) and are in final stages of the release process. In ESA, there is very limited awareness of improved pigeonpea varieties due to a consistent failure of the public sector to supply good quality source seed. The private sector has shown little interest in seed production and most often seed is produced in high potential areas or areas with infrastructure for storage and processing far away from its area of utilization, leading to high seed costs. To overcome these constraints, investments have been made in breeder and foundation seed production, and proceeds from seed sales used to re-capitalize seed revolving funds to support subsequent seed production cycles. Foundation seed has been marketed to private companies and NGOs for further seed production and dissemination. During 2007-10, a total of 21.18 MT Breeder, and 440.2 MT Foundation and Certified seed of ICEAP 00040 (Mali in Tanzania, Kachangu in Malawi), ICEAP 00068 (Tumia), ICPL 87091(Komboa), and ICP 9145 was produced at research stations and farmer fields. In addition to this in Tanzania, 21.0 MT and 1.7 MT of seed distributed to farmers and farmers’ groups, respectively, to feed into the informal seed systems. A total of 146 Farmers’ Participatory Varietal Selection (PVS) trials that included 8-9 pre-released/released varieties along with a farmer’s variety as a check were conducted in Tanzania (60) and Malawi (86). A total of 3644 farmers took part in the PVS trials from Tanzania (1989) and Malawi (1655). In addition, 541 field demonstrations were organized in Tanzania (455) and Malawi (86) to quickly disseminate promising varieties and production technologies. During the PVS farmers came up with a number of preferred traits, which facilitated in short-listing of varieties for fast track varietal release. In total, 29 field days were conducted in target locations of Tanzania (6) and Malawi (23) with the participation of 2909 farmers in the two countries. During the field days farmers were asked to select preferred varieties along with preference criteria. Training programs on pigeonpea seed production, seed storage, and utilization technologies and value chain were organized to improve the knowledge base of 6200 farmers(3700-Tanzania, 1300-Malawi), 72 extension personnel (50- Malawi, 22-Tanzania) and eight farmer groups. Information bulletin was published on improved pigeonpea technologies and seed production in Malawi (both in English and Progress of Phase 1 205
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Tropical Legumes II Project TROPICA
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TROPICAL LEGUMES II Tropical Legume
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Seed Production and Delivery System
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Enhancing Pigeonpea Productivity an
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NARES NASFAM NASSPA NPT NSC NSO NSS
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TL II was implemented in 10 target
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country governments in agricultural
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Table 1-2: continued Variety code (
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Table 1-3: Seed production and deli
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As stated earlier in this chapter,
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Table 1-5: Graduate degree students
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Ndjeunga J, Ibro A, Cisse Y, Ben Ah
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Project background Groundnut is one
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Table 2-2: Performance of ICGV 0035
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Table 2-6: Performance of ICGV 9111
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Table 2-11: Results of 255 paired c
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Table 2-16: Groundnut seed of vario
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Infrastructure facilities For effic
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Project sites Tamil Nadu The presen
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In Karnataka, the PDKV model was pr
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Training course A total of four tra
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Background The yield of groundnut i
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Table 3-2: Groundnut production tre
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In order of importance, the largest
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Table 3-5: Results of pair-wise com
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Finally, the variety choices are co
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hybridization techniques, design of
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Figure 3-2: The Malawi model of the
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Tanzania TL II has contributed to t
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Annex 3-2: Performance of Virginia
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Annex 3-4: Regional elite groundnut
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The European Union still remains th
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Table 4-2: Proportion of households
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Table 4-4: Amount requested, amount
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Table 4-6. Comparison of groundnut
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The use of other inputs (credit, in
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A PVS evaluation was launched in pi
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Table 4-10: Locations and contact f
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Table 4-11: Mean pod yield (kg per
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99511 (Table 4-12). Most important
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Table 4-15: Evaluation of groundnut
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A 10-day intensive training worksho
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Seed production of all classes A to
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Testing seed marketing strategies A
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as Nigeria that will face the great
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100 Million hectares 80 60 40 20 0
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In Niger, changes in cowpea product
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irregular rainfall early in the cro
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Table 5-4: Cowpea breeding lines se
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Cowpea varieties released The proje
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Table 5-8: Number of days to flower
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Evaluation for phosphorus-use effic
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Figure 5-8: Reactions of some culti
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ASS6 ASS64 ASS110 ASS56 Figure 5-9:
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Figure 5-10: Meeting of farmers’
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The best approach to spread the imp
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Phase I Social Sciences research in
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The consequences are that the impro
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about half of area share of land al
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Figure 6-3: Average area (ha) per h
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single lingering bottleneck on whic
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In Kenya, the small seed pack appro
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Summary, process gains and people r
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Fast-Tracking and Technology Genera
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Figure 6-6: Distribution of PVS sit
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Table 6-15: Farmer evaluation of in
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Technology generation Mechanistic s
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Table 6-22: Yield under drought ind
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Number of degree training students
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Rain-out shelter in CIAT-Colombia T
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Impact assessment and enhancement P
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Annex 6-2: TL IIEthiopia: decentral
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