GOMA PILOT LEARNING WEREDA DIAGNOSIS AND PROGRAM DESIGN May 25, 2007 Improving Productivity and Market Success (IPMS) of Ethiopian Farmers Project Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................ 6 2. Bio physical and socio economic characteristics of Goma wereda .................. 7 2.1 Location, land and population ................................................................................................ 7 2.2 Climate .......................................................................................................................................... 8 2.3 Soils ............................................................................................................................................. 10 2.4 Vegetation, topography and water resources .................................................................. 11 2.5 Land use ..................................................................................................................................... 12 2.6 Farming systems, priority commodities and the environment .................................... 13 2.6.1 Farming systems ....................................................................................................................... 13 2.6.1.1 Shaded coffee/livestock farming system; ................................................................................ 13 2.6.1.2 Cereal/livestock farming system ................................................................................................ 14 2.7 Priority commodities ............................................................................................................... 15 2.7.1 Crops .......................................................................................................................................... 15 2.7.2 Livestock .................................................................................................................................... 18 2.8 Environmental challenges ..................................................................................................... 21 3. INSTITUTIONS ........................................................................................................ 25 3.1. Market ........................................................................................................................................ 25 3.1.2 Cooperatives .............................................................................................................................. 26 3.1.2.1. Legal ground and objectives ..................................................................................................... 26 3.1.2.2 Management structure of cooperatives .................................................................................... 27 3.1.2.3 Challenges and success of the farmers’ cooperatives in Goma wereda ........................... 27 3.1.2.4 Current financial situation of cooperatives .............................................................................. 28 3.1.2.5 Marketing role of cooperatives ................................................................................................... 29 3.2 Input supply ............................................................................................................................... 29 3.2.1. Cooperatives ............................................................................................................................. 29 3.2.2. Office of Agriculture and Rural development ...................................................................... 30 3.2.3 Private traders ......................................................................................................................... 30 3. 3 Rural Finance ........................................................................................................................... 31 3. 3.1 Collateral .................................................................................................................................. 31 3. 3.2 Loan scheme, interest rate and coverage ............................................................................... 32 3. 4 Women Affairs Office ............................................................................................................. 33 3. 5. Agricultural extension .......................................................................................................... 35 4. PRIORITY COMMODITY DESCRIPRTION, ANALYSIS AND POTENTIAL INTERVENTIONS ........................................................................................................ 40 5 OUTLINE OF PROGRAM OF WORK FOR GOMA PLW ........................................ 62 5.1 Farming Systems and Priority commodities identified ................................................. 62 Goma Pilot Learning Wereda Diagnosis and Program Design IPMS Team 2 Improving Productivity and Market Success (IPMS) of Ethiopian Farmers Project 5.2 knowledge management- general (RBM code 100 series) ............................................ 62 5.2 Public institutions capacity building .................................................................................. 63 Goma Pilot Learning Wereda Diagnosis and Program Design IPMS Team 3 Improving Productivity and Market Success (IPMS) of Ethiopian Farmers Project List Figures Fig, 1. Map of Ethiopia with IPMS Pilot Learning Weredas (PLWs) ........................ 6 Fig. 2. Rainfall Map of Goma Wereda ......................................................................... 9 Fig. 3. Elevation map of Goma wereda .................................................................... 10 Fig. 4. Soil map of Goma wereda .............................................................................. 11 Fig. 5. Land use map of Goma wereda .................................................................... 13 List of Tables Table 1. PA population, total area and distance from Agarao, Goma Wereda ...... 7 Table 2 Long term rainfall (15 years) and temperature data for Goma wereda .... 8 Table 3. Land use pattern of Goma wereda ............................................................. 12 Table 4. Contribution of all sources of cash income to total income ................... 16 Table 5. Coffee exported (ton) to local market ........................................................ 16 Table 6. Types of crops (cereals, fruits and stimulants), area and expected production 16 Table 7. Livestock Population of Goma Wereda ..................................................... 18 Table 8. Estimated livestock product utilisation (%) in Goma .............................. 20 Table 9. Name of Rivers and number of wet coffee processing plants by type of owner in Goma Woreda 23 Table 10. Number of cooperatives ........................................................................... 27 Table 11. Major input types required and purposes ............................................... 29 Table 12. Rural credit beneficiaries and repayment rate by year ......................... 32 Table 13. Goma wereda OoARD staffing and education level .............................. 37 Table 14. Project support for coffee production improvement. ............................ 40 Table 15. Tropical and sub tropical fruits –(Mango, avocado, pineapple, orange, banana, Papaya) ......................................................................................................... 46 Table 16. Spices (Ethiopian cardamom, and ginger) – .......................................... 50 Table 17. Apiculture ................................................................................................... 52 Table 18. Sheep and Goat fattening ......................................................................... 56 Table 19. Cattle Fattening .......................................................................................... 57 Table 20. Poultry ......................................................................................................... 60 Table 21. Project support for Goma PLW knowledge management system ....... 63 Table 22. Institutional staff capacity building ......................................................... 63 Table 23. Training activities for capacity building .................................................. 64 Goma Pilot Learning Wereda Diagnosis and Program Design IPMS Team 4 Improving Productivity and Market Success (IPMS) of Ethiopian Farmers Project Table 24. Commodity based technical training for experts and development agents .......................................................................................................................... 65 Table 25. Project support for PLW general capacity building ............................... 65 Table 26. FTCs with potential for priority commodities ......................................... 66 Table 27. Project support coffee production ........................................................... 68 Table 28. project support input supply .................................................................... 68 Table 29. Project support to sun dried coffee marketing ...................................... 68 Table 30. Project support for production and marketing of honey ...................... 70 Table 31. Project support for fattening .................................................................... 70 Table 32. Project support for input supply and credit for fattening ..................... 71 Table 33. Project