AAPI 7th Quarterly Report Apr-June 2012 - AAPI (Accelerating ...

Table 14. AAPI Farmer Training through June 2012
Quarter
Districts
Batches of Training
Number of Farmers
DAE NGO BADC Applicator Total Men Women Total
FtF 2,447 110 2,557 77,857 24,402 102,259
Year 1 actual
Oct-Dec 2011
Jan-Mar 2012
Apr-Jun 2012
Total Year 2
M&S 1,521 66 1,587 49,621 13,831 63,452
Total Year 1 3,968 176 4,144 127,478 38,233 165,711
FtF 1,213 39 1 1,253 36,062 14,011 50,073
M&S 452 42 494 14,861 4,899 19,760
Total 1,665 81 1 1,747 50,923 18,910 69,833
FtF 995 208 15 93 1,311 37,251 15,189 52,440
M&S 345 69 47 461 13,715 4,725 18,440
Total 1,340 277 15 140 1,772 50,966 19,914 70,880
FtF 785 32 817 22,909 9,763 32,672
M&S 139 17 156 4,412 1,828 6,240
Total 924 49 973 27,321 11,591 38,912
FtF 2,993 279 15 94 3,381 96,222 38,963 135,185
M&S 936 128 47 1,111 32,988 11,452 44,440
Total Year 2 3,929 407 15 141 4,492 129,210 50,415 179,625
FtF 5,440 389 15 94 5,938 174,079 63,365 237,444
Total Project to date
M&S 2,457 194 47 2,698 82,609 25,283 107,892
Source: AAPI-IFDC Database.
Total Project 7,897 583 15 141 8,636 256,688 88,648 345,336
Motivational Meetings with early adopters – This is not a scheduled activity in the Annual
Plan and therefore no targets are set. The experience from ILSAFARM has been instructive and
follows the general extension experience for diffusion of technology into a farming population.
Mobilizing and motivating farmer’s already using UDP technology requires continual efforts to hold
farmers’ attention on the technology and its benefits. A key lesson learned from ILSAFARM was that
the Guti urea adopters from last year required re-educating. The project uses farmer meetings as an
effective way to remind farmers of the benefits that they received in the earlier season when they used
Guti urea. It aims to renew their commitment in the new season. For the Aus season, the motivational
meetings with the earlier adopters started in late March and continued to mid June, in much the same
way as farmer training. Two hundred and sixty six meetings were reported last quarter with 12,381
Aus farmers (3,121 women [25 percent]). Details by upazila are provided in Appendix 10 .
Field Demonstrations – In this quarter, the demonstrations for the Boro season were harvested
and those for Aus season were planted. The data reported in Table 12 are for demonstrations that have
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