Enhanced Wheat-Legume Cropping Project
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GOAL: Enhanced food and nutritional security, improved livelihoods of rural communities and agricultural sector growth in the countries of West Asia and North Africa (WANA) in the face of increasing climatic variability and change
PURPOSE: Deliver pro-poor scientific and technological innovations to increase and stabilize the productivity of wheat and food legume based production systems in the dry areas of WANA
8 countries of WANA region directly involved :(Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Turkey)Different components are considered1. Seed component (seed delivery system)2. Technology dissemination3. Socio-economic surveys and studies4. Backup research for technologies development and adjustement5. Capacity Development
Seed Delivery Systems
1. Wheat and faba bean seed system study (policy, variety release, seed production and market, quality assurance, seed value chain) was conducted in Morocco and report will be discussed with stakeholders in Open Workshop organized in the Agriculture Fair of Meknes in 2015
2. Communities based seed enterprises/groups targeting mainly food legumes are established: 5 mobile seed cleaning and processing units were provided to serve 5 farmers communities Morocco (Merchouch), Tunisia (Boussalem), Sudan (Eddamer, Hudeiba), Algeria (Constantine) and Jordan (Maru region)
3. Several varieties of food legume and wheat were recently released by NARS. They are increased by the project for dissemination
Seed Delivery Systems
Clean treated seed
Original seed before processing
Crops Number of Varieties Increased
Amount of breeder and Pre-Basic seeds produced (T)++
Durum wheat 15 27.7Bread wheat 14 258.9Chickpea 19 382Faba bean 18 73.7Lentil 17 19.2Total* 83 761.7
Breeder and pre-basic seed increase in 2013/14 within ICARDA-EU-IFAD Project
475 tons of 53 varieties of faba bean, chickpea and lentil produced with NARS partners and will be increased and distributed to
farmers for dissemination in 2014/15
53 FL var. 475 T
* Gross production
Kafr El-Sheikh
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Percentage increase in grain yield between faba bean demonstration fields and
farmers fields in 2012/13 and 2013/14 cropping Seasons by governorates
2013 & 2014 data showed an average increase of around 21% in yield of farmers applying recommended package (RP).Adoption survey done in 2014 on 700 farmers showed that :
-Farmers applying recommended package saved 2670 EP/ha (370 USD/ha)-24 % of surveyed farmers adopted the FB variety GIZA 843 (tolerant to orobanche)-Net margins of farmers applying RP is 540 USD/ha higher than farmers following TP
On-Farm Demonstrations of Technologies Egypt
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Evolution of Faba Bean Area, Production and Yield in Egypt
The ICARDA-EU-IFAD-ICARDA project and the national campaign by promoting the new varieties with improved package start to show impact on faba bean production and productivity in Egypt
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Chickpea varieties
Performance of Chickpea improved varieties with recommended package in Sudan in 2013/14 (Gezira state)
For chickpea data of 2013 and 2014 showed that the Yield is doubled in demonstration fields applying improved package with substantial increase in net benefit
Pioneer Farmer-Shendi Neighboring Farmer Field-Shendi
Morocco
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Effects of Non Tillage (NT) and Conventional Tillage on grain and straw yield (q/ha) of lentil at 3 sites in Zaer
(*) means significant difference (t-student test)
Many programs have released varieties applying participatory approach involving farmers mainly in food legumes:
In 2013:- 2 faba bean varieties (Shendi and Merowe) in Sudan- 1 chickpea variety (Rebha) in Tunisia
In 2014:- 4 chickpea varieties (FLIP03-59C, FLIP03-50C,
FLIP01-37C and FLIP01-6C) in Sudan
Several other wheat and food legumes lines are selected for further testing in Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan
Participatory Variety Selection
MeroweShendi
Socio – Economic Studies
Work is in progress • Around 1300 farmers surveyed in Morocco in 2013• Around 700 farmers surveyed in Egypt in 2013 and 2014• The other countries conducted a survey in the project regions in 2014
• Gender survey is conducted in Morocco in 2014
Type of training
Numbers Nb of direct Beneficiaries
Countries
FFS 19 FFS
Around 2000 direct beneficiaries
Egy, Sud,Tun, Leb, Mor, Tur
In-Country Courses
15 in 6 countries
Around 365 participants
Egy, Sud, Alg,Leb, Mor, Tur
Field days 370 Around 6100 participants
Alg, Egy, Jor, Leb, Mor, Sud, Tun, Tur
Total Around 8500
Training activities achieved by NARS partners in 2013/14 season
FFS In Sudan
Capacity Development
Electronic newsletter of the projectH.E. Dr. Lassad Lachaal, Tunisia’s Minister of Agriculture, talking to farmers and research staff and to media
Governor of Al Sharkia (Egypt) visiting one the project farmer
President of ARC Sudan talk to media about the project achievements
Linkages and Seed
Morocco: successful collaboration, links and synergy between OCPF initiative on Food Legumes with EU-IFAD, CRP-GL and CRP-DS; 3 seed machines support seed activities of the three projects. Sudan: need more collaboration between ICARDA-EU-IFAD and FS. Seed processing machine will be based in ARC Sudan (Hudeiba Research Station) and modalities of its use would be under the leadership of the Union of Farmers.
Algeria: ITGC will provide the seed machine to a small leader farmer (Constantine) hoping that this could drive more interest and investments from policy makers.
Tunisia: seed machine would be made available for a community of small farmers based in Boussalem that would facilitate access to agriculture inputs and services for the members (presently, farmers associated with the ICARDA- EU-IFAD, FS and CA projects).
Jordan: the seed machine will be managed by an NGO in the North of Jordan near Maru station of NCARE that would take care of servicing small farmers of the project target area.
IFAD Developmental ProjectsMorocco: Agricultural Value Chain Development Programme in the Mountain Zones of Taza ProvinceRural Development Project in the Eastern Middle Atlas MountainsTunisia: Agropastoral Development and Local InitiativesIntegrated Agricultural Development Project in the Governorate of Siliana (Phase II)Egypt: Promotion of Rural Incomes through Market Enhancement ProjectOn-Farm Irrigation Development Project in the OldlandsUpper Egypt Rural Development ProjectWest Noubaria Rural Development ProjectSudan: Seeds Development ProgrammeButana Integrated Rural Development ProjectJordan: Agricultural Resource Management Project - Phase IITurkey: Murat River Watershed Development ProjectArdahan-Kars-Artvin Development ProjectDiyarbakir, Batman and Siirt Development Project
Ideas for future collaboration with IFAD
• Integrate feed legumes and livestock: develop integrated innovation platforms for small holder farms to add value (community label products) of farm products.
• Scale-out the use of faba bean small seed to feed cattle (commonly used in North Africa to improve the quality of meat) and develop labeled products (particularly in Sudan). (ICARDA has selected several improved lines with low level of tannins that can improve the digestibility of FB).
• Scale-up and Scale-out the raised bed mode of sowing of faba bean initiated in 2013/14 in few demonstration fields in Egypt in EU-IFAD and CRP DS to cover more area in Egypt and Sudan since it gave a promising results (most of faba bean demonstration fields will be conducted under raised bed in 2014/15 within EU-IFAD in Egypt). • Establish new community based seed enterprises targeting mainly food and feed
legumes and providing them access to new varieties.• Adapt legislation to favour small seed enterprise and farmer produced and marketed seeds
• Disseminate the new varieties of FL mainly selected through PSV (Sudan, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt). • Extend CA in different countries for small holder farmers in
appropriate area by using low cost seeders through the IP• Use new CA on-farm platforms in Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Algeria
and Morocco created by ICARDA- EU-IFAD and other projects to monitor the advantages of CA.• Use new IPM options to reduce yield losses due to diseases and pest
such as seed dressing with new efficient chemicals.• Develop, improve and disseminate the machineries adapted to
small holder farmers of food and feed legumes (raised bed planter, pesticides sprayers, direct seeders, threshers, …)
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