SCALING-UP FARMING TECHNOLOGIES Building on MATF projects’ achievements 3rd MATF Experience Sharing Workshop 5 - 9sJunes2006, Arusha, Tanzania MAENDELEO AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY FUND SCALING-UP FARMING TECHNOLOGIES Building on MATF projects’ achievements 3rd MATF Experience Sharing Workshop 5 -9sJunes2006, Arusha, Tanzania The third experience sharing workshop brought together more than 60 participants who were drawn from Round 3 projects, which ended in late 2005, and stakeholders from various organisations within and outside Tanzania. These proceedings highlight the achievements and lessons from the 16 Round 3 Projects, exploring various emerging issues such as marketing, policy and sustainability of the projects. For more information on MATF and its projects, please visit our website, www.maendeleo-atf.org. MAENDELEO AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY FUND DOWNLOAD MAENDELEO AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY FUND The Maendeleo Agricultural our Publications Technology Fund (MATF) is a regional initiative established anywhere in in 2002 with joint funding from The Rockefeller Foundation and The Gatsby Charitable Foundation (UK), which has the World been supporting through The Kilimo Trust since 2005. It is managed by the Food and Agricultural Research Management - (FARM) Africa. MATF aims to improve the livelihoods of farming communities in East Africa by identifying and facilitating innovative ways of technology transfer, adoption and improved productivity through competitive grants. The MATF Team Fund Manager LYDIA N KIMENYE (PHD) Project Offi cer MONICAH NYANG’ Monitoring Offi cer CHRIS WEBO www.maendeleo-atf.org Communication and Documentation Offi cer DANCAN MUHINDI Finance Information w herever you are JOSEPH KINYANJUI Administration FATUMA BUKE Compilation, design and layout DANCAN MUHINDI Offi ces Studio House, 4th Floor Argwings Kodhek Road, Hurlingham P.O. Box 49502 - 00100 GPO Nairobi, Kenya Tel: +254 20 2731664/2044/2203 Fax: +254 20 2732086 Email: [email protected] Web: www.maendeleo-atf.org | www.farmafrica.org.uk © FARM-Africa 2006 MATF IS MANAGED BY 2 MATF 3rd Grant Holders’ Workshop SESSION 1 CONTENTS Opening of the workshop Presentations: FARM-Africa brief and MATF reflections 6 Official opening speech 10 SESSION 2 Workshop objectives 11 Presentation of Round 3 Evaluation report by ETC East Africa 12 SESSION 3 Dissemination of livestock related technologies 1. Transfer of Langstroth beehive technology to subsistence farmers in Bomet district, Kenya 15 2. Technology transfer for small-scale commercial apiculture, Taita Taveta, Kenya 18 3. Working with the rural private sector to scale-up technology transfer to small-scale 21 farmers in western Kenya SESSION 4 Dissemination of crop production technologies 4. Dissemination of gari processing technology for sustainable cassava production and 26 poverty reduction in selected districts of northern, eastern and central Uganda 5. Post-harvest handling and marketing of perishable agricultural products using solar 29 dryers in Mbarara district, Uganda 6. Introduction of indigenous fruit processing technology to rural communities in Tabora, 33 Uyui and Sikonge districts, Tanzania 7. Promotion of orange fleshed sweet potato varieties through schools in urban and 37 peri-urban communities of Kampala, Uganda SESSION 5 Crop protection 8. Implementation and dissemination of “push-pull” habitat management strategies for 41 control of stem borers and striga weed in maize based systems in eastern Tanzania 9. Control of maize stem borer using the “push-pull” technology in central Kenya 44 10. Clean Yam planting material production in Kayunga district, Uganda 46 SESSION 6 Crop production 11. Promotion of Vanilla production in Luwero district, Uganda 49 12. Empowering small-scale and women farmers through sustainable production, 51 seed supply and marketing of African Indigenous Vegetables in East Africa. 13. Achieving wider impact with climbing beans and agro-forestry intervention in the 54 eastern Tanzania Highlands: A win-win combination 14. Farm production and distribution of Epuripur sorghum variety to increase household 56 income in Pallisa district, Uganda. 15. Moving from commodity coffee to speciality coffee through technological innovation: 58 central pulperies in Tanzania SESSION 7 Emerging issues: Micro-finance/credit 60 SESSION 8 Field trip: feed back and emerging issues 63 Tissue culture banana project in Mbuguni, Arusha region Oyster mushroom cultivation project in Hai district, Kilimanjaro region Sustainability and exit strategies 65 SESSION 9 Integrated Natural Resource Management 16. Reaching more farmers more quickly: scaling up integrated natural resources 67 management technologies in the north eastern highlands of Tanzania 17. Participatory scaling up of soil nutrient management technologies for increased 70 crop yields in smallholder farms of central highlands of Kenya 18. Advancing conservation tillage practice through farmer experience sharing and jua kali 73 artisan support in Kenya and Tanzania SESSION 10 Closing Session: emerging issues 77 Marketing issues Policy issues Closing remarks by FARM-Africa Kenya Country Director Workshop participants and contacts 80 Contents 3 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ABL African Beekeepers Limited AFC Agricultural Finance Corporation AIVs African Indigenous Vegetables ARI Agricultural Research Institute AP Member MATF Advisory Panel member AVRDC Asian Vegetable Research and Development Centre CBOs Community Based Organisations CIDev Centre For Integrated Development DANIDA Danish International Development Agency ECABREN Eastern and Central Africa Bean Research Network FARM-Africa Food and Agricultural Research Management - Africa FFS Farmers’ Field Schools FSA Financial Services Association GDP Gross Domestic Product ICIPE International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology ICRAF International Centre for Research in Agro-forestry IITA International Institute of Tropical Agriculture INED Integrated Environmental Defence ISAAA The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications KARI Kenya Agricultural Research Institute KEFRI Kenya Forestry Research Institute KENDAT Kenya Network for Draught Animal Technology KEPHIS Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Services KILICAFE The Association of Kilimanjaro Speciality Coffee Growers K-REP Kenya Rural Enterprise Programme LUDFA Luwero District Farmers’ Association M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MAFS Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (Tanzania) MATF Maendeleo Agricultural Technology Fund MBADIFA Mbarara Farmers’ District Association MUK Makerere University Kampala NAADS National Agricultural Advisory Services NAARI Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Research Institute NADIFA Nakasongola District Farmers’ Association NARES National Agricultural Research and Extension Systems NARS National Agricultural Research Systems NARO National Agricultural Research Organisation NEPAD New Partnership for Africa’s Development NGOs Non-Governmental Organisations PMA Plan for Modernisation of Agriculture PMC Project Management Committees PME Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation RMT Rapid Multiplication Technique SAARI Serere Agriculture and Animal Research Institute SACCOS Savings and Credit Co-operative Society SCAPA Soil Conservation and Agro-forestry Project Arusha SEC Sub-county Executive Committee SIDA Swedish International Development Agency SIDO Small Industries Development Organisation SIGs Special Interest Groups SITE Strengthening Informal Sector Training and Enterprise SPG Seed Producer Groups SQL Seed Quality Inspectors TOSCI Tanzania Official Seed Certification Institute ToT Trainers of Trainers Abbreviations and Acronyms 5 S E S S I O N 1 Opening Session A brief overview of FARM-Africa by George Odhiambo Tanzania Country Director Achieving a prosperous rural Africa FARM-Africa in its work, believes in a vision of a prosperous rural Africa. Our mission is to reduce poverty by enabling marginal African herders and farmers to make improvements to their well being through better management of their renewable natural resources. “As specialists developing As an organisation, we have certain characteristics and ways of working that will technical expertise in guide us to achieve this vision. As specialists developing technical expertise in various various sectors, we seek sectors, we seek to be innovative while looking for solutions to poverty and problems to be innovative while that face hearders and farmers in Africa. We also aim to be practical and operational at the grass roots level with farmers. looking for solutions to poverty and problems FARM-Africa is building the capacity of rural people and local institutions in Africa, that face herders and disseminating practical experience and advocating to improve policy and practice. farmers in Africa.” Our work This covers three broad sectors which we consider as our thematic areas. These are as follows: < Pastoralist Development To improve livelihoods of pastoral peoples and demonstrate viability of pastoralist way of life. This is refl ected across different countries. < Smallholder Agriculture and Land Reform To improve livelihoods of smallholder farmers through intensifi cation of production, improved access to markets and better services. < Community Forest Management To enhance the livelihoods of forest users and conserve forests through developing and implementing participatory sustainable forest management plans. In these thematic areas, there are cross-cutting issues that we integrate into our work. These are mainly on gender