Draft Report on the Needs Assessment on Identification of Infrastructure for Production Clusters Across Rice, Wheat and Tomato Value Chains
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DRAFT REPORT ON THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT ON IDENTIFICATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE FOR PRODUCTION CLUSTERS ACROSS RICE, WHEAT AND TOMATO VALUE CHAINS. TO AGRO-PROCESSING, PRODUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT AND LIVELIHOOD IMPROVEMENT SUPPORT PROJECT – KANO BY ALI ABDULLAHI, PhD. SABI’U MOHAMMED SULEIMAN, PhD. UBALE SANI. JULY, 2019. 1 Table of Contents List of Tables ............................................................................................................................................... 4 List of Figures .............................................................................................................................................. 5 Acronyms ..................................................................................................................................................... 6 Executive Summary .................................................................................................................................... 7 1.0 BACKGROUND ............................................................................................................................. 9 1.1 Overview of APPEALS Project ................................................................................................. 9 1.2 Justification of the Exercise ....................................................................................................... 9 1.3 Overall Objectives/Methodology ............................................................................................. 10 1.4 Scope of the Work ..................................................................................................................... 11 2.0 OVERVIEW OF THE PRIORITY CROPS (RICE, TOMATO AND WHEAT) AND GENDER MAINSTREAMING INTO THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT ................................................. 11 2.1 Rice ............................................................................................................................................. 11 2.2 Tomato ....................................................................................................................................... 12 2.3 Wheat ......................................................................................................................................... 13 2.4 Gender Mainstreaming into the Needs Assessment ............................................................... 13 3.0 METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ................................................................................. 15 3.1 Overview of Kano State Agricultural Productivity ............................................................... 15 3.2 Sampling Procedure, Data Collection and Analysis .............................................................. 16 3.2.1 Rationale for the selection of the communities ...................................................................... 17 3.2.2 Rapid Appraisal for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (RAAKS) ....................................... 17 4.0 RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS ................................................................................................. 19 4.1 General information of the production clusters of the priority value chains ............................ 19 4.1.1 Main income generating activities in the selected LGAs ...................................................... 19 4.1.2 Sources of farm inputs in the selected LGAs ......................................................................... 20 4.2.3 Access and availability of farm services and operations ...................................................... 21 4.1.4 Sources of agricultural finance in the selected LGAs ........................................................... 22 4.1.5 Access and availability of production infrastructure ........................................................... 23 4.1.6 Infrastructural strength across the production clusters of the priority value chains ........ 24 4.1.7 Availability of functional farmers association in the production clusters .......................... 25 4.1.8 Availability of influential farmers association in the production clusters .......................... 26 4.2 Priority value chains (Rice, Tomato and Wheat) situational assessment .................................. 26 4.2.1 Production Clusters of Rice ........................................................................................................ 26 2 4.2.2 Farm size devoted for Rice Production in Kano Clusters ........................................................ 27 4.2.3 Average yield of rice in Kano production clusters ................................................................ 28 4.2.4 Rice Production Challenges .................................................................................................... 29 4.2.5 Production Clusters of Tomato ............................................................................................... 30 4.2.6 Farm size devoted for Tomato Production in Kano Clusters .............................................. 30 4.2.7 Average yield of tomato in Kano production clusters .......................................................... 31 4.2.8 Tomato Production Challenges ............................................................................................... 32 4.2.9 Wheat Production Clusters in Kano ...................................................................................... 33 4.2.10: Average farm size devoted for wheat production .............................................................. 34 3.3 Average yield of wheat in bags per Ha ...................................................................................... 35 4.2.12 Wheat Production Challenges in Selected LGAs ................................................................ 36 4.2.13 Key Actors in Rice, Tomato and Wheat in Kano Production Clusters ............................. 37 4.2 Livelihood Description of the Communities ........................................................................... 38 4.3.1 Livelihood distribution of the production clusters based on physical capital .................... 38 4.3.2 Livelihood distribution of the production clusters based on natural capital ...................... 39 4.3.4 Livelihood distribution of the production clusters based on human capital .......................... 40 4.3.4 Livelihood distribution of the production clusters based on human capital ...................... 41 4.3.5 Livelihood distribution of the production clusters based on human capital ...................... 42 4.4 Production challenges in the production clusters of the priority value chains .......................... 43 4.5 Infrastructural challenges across the production clusters of the priority value chains. .......... 44 APPENDIX I ; Checklist for the Focus Group Discussion ................................................................... 47 APPENDIX II: PHOTOGRAPHS OF FGDS PARTICIPANTS. ........................................................ 51 3 List of Tables Table 1:Distribution of the sample respondents in the study area ................................................... 16 Table 2:RAAKS tools - Actor Identification Sheet. ......................................................................... 18 Table 3:Rice Production Clusters in Kano State ............................................................................. 27 Table 4:Tomato Production Clusters in Kano State ........................................................................ 30 Table 5:Local Government Areas/Communities for Wheat Production .......................................... 34 Table 6:Identification of key actors across the production clusters ................................................. 38 Table 7:Livelihood distribution of the production clusters based on access and availability of physical capital ............................................................................................................................... 39 Table 8:Livelihood distribution of production clusters based on access and availability of human capital ............................................................................................................................................. 41 Table 9:Livelihood distribution of the production clusters based on access and availability of social capital ............................................................................................................................................. 42 Table 10:Livelihood distribution of the production clusters based on access and availability of financial capital .............................................................................................................................. 43 Table 11:Distribution of production challenges in the production clusters of the priority value chains .............................................................................................................................................. 44 Table 12: Production infrastructural challenges across the production clusters of the priority value chains .............................................................................................................................................. 45 4 List of Figures Figure 1:Income generating activities in the selected LGAs ................................................................. 20 Figure 2:Sources of farm inputs in the selected LGAs .......................................................................... 21 Figure 3:Access and availability of farm services and operations