Fogera Woreda Pilot Learning Site Diagnosis and Program Design January 2005 Table of Contents 1. Introduction..........................................................................................................................3 2. Farming systems, crop and livestock priorities ....................................................................6 2.1. Description of Fogera Woreda.........................................................................................6 2.2 Priority Farming systems ...................................................................................................9 2.3 Priority crop commodities ...............................................................................................11 2.4 Livestock priorities ...........................................................................................................12 3. Institutions .........................................................................................................................15 3.1 Marketing.........................................................................................................................15 3.2 Input supply .....................................................................................................................16 3.3 Rural Finance ..................................................................................................................16 3.4 Agricultural extension service ..........................................................................................17 3.5 HIV/AIDS service ............................................................................................................18 4- Priority commodity description, analysis and potential interventions .................................19 5. Outline of program of work Fogera PLS ............................................................................36 5.1 Priority commodities and natural resource management technologies............................36 5.2 PLS knowledge management – general (RBM code 100 series).....................................36 5.2.1 School and Woreda Net................................................................................................37 5.3 PLS public institutional capacity building (RBM code 200 series)....................................38 5.4 PLS sustainable livelihood development (RBM code series 300)....................................40 5.4.1 Fish (Rice/Fish/Livestock System)................................................................................41 5.4.2 Apiculture (Cereal/livestock system).............................................................................44 5.4.3 Dairy and beef (Both systems)......................................................................................45 5.4.4 Poultry (Cereal/livestock system)..................................................................................47 5.4.5 Hide (Rice/Fish/Livestock System) ..............................................................................49 5.4.6 Noug (Guizotia abyssinica Cass.)................................................................................51 5.4.7 Vegetables (Pepper, onion, tomato) ............................................................................54 5.4.8 Rice (Oryza sativa L.) ..................................................................................................56 5.4.9 Chick Pea (Cicer arietinum L.).....................................................................................59 5.5 Recommendations on innovative technology (practices) and institutional innovations (400 series)....................................................................................................................................61 2 Map 1. The 10 Project Pilot Learning Sites (PLSs) in the Four Regional States .....................5 Table 1. Total population by holders and sex ..........................................................................6 Map 2. Altitude in Fogera Woreda ..........................................................................................7 Map 3. Annual Rainfall in Fogera Woreda ...............................................................................7 Map 4. Soil types in Fogera Woreda........................................................................................8 Table 2. Farming System by Ecological Zone in Fogera Woreda...........................................9 Map 5. Crop and livestock production in the Fogera plains ...................................................10 Map 6. Maize and pepper production and apiary in the mid and high altitude areas ............11 Table 3- Number of staff and educational level of the Woreda Office of Agriculture..............18 Table 4 : Rice ........................................................................................................................20 Table 5: Spices – pepper (Mareko fana variety – 12 Birr/kg).................................................22 Table 6: Oil Crops (Noug) System.........................................................................................25 Table 7: Pulses (Chickpea and lentils) Production.................................................................26 Table 8: Cattle (Dairy and Beef) Production System .............................................................27 Table 9: Fish..........................................................................................................................29 Table 10: Apiculture...............................................................................................................30 Table 11: Poultry....................................................................................................................32 Table 12: Extension system...................................................................................................34 Table 13. Project support for PLS knowledge management system (first year) ....................37 Table 14 Potential Woreda staff to be included in the innovative methods training ..............38 Table 15. Project support for PLS general capacity building support (first year.....................39 Table 15a. FTCs with potential for priority commodities and NRM technologies in the ice/Fish/Livestock system 40 Table 15b. FTCs with potential for priority commodities in Cereal/ Livestock system............40 Table 15c. FTCs with potential for NRM technologies in both farming system .....................40 Table 16. Project Support in fish marketing..........................................................................41 Table 17. Project support for fish input supply and improvement .........................................42 Table 18. Project support for fish production improvement...................................................43 Table 19. Project support for honey/wax marketing...............................................................44 Table 20. Project support for honey/wax input supply system ...............................................44 Table 21. Project support for honey/wax production improvement ........................................45 Table 22. Project Support for improving dairy products and beef marketing .........................45 Table 23. Project Support for dairy products and beef input supply system .........................46 Table 24. Project support for dairy products and beef production improvement....................47 Table 25. Project Support for poultry marketing ....................................................................47 Table 26. Project Support for poultry input supply system....................................................48 Table 27. Project support to improve poultry production........................................................49 Table 28. Project Support in hide marketing.........................................................................50 Table 29. Project Support in hide input supply system ..........................................................50 Table 30. Project support in hide production improvement system .......................................51 Table 31. Project support on marketing................................................................................51 Table 32. Project support on noug input supply....................................................................53 Table 33. Project support for noug production improvement ................................................53 Table 34. Project support for irrigated vegetables marketing.................................................54 Table 35. Project support for irrigated vegetable input supply system..................................55 Table 36. Project support for irrigated vegetable production .................................................56 Table 37. Project support in rice marketing improvement.....................................................57 Table 38. Project support on input supply of rice...................................................................57 Table 39. Project support for rice production ........................................................................58 Table 40. Project support for Chickpea marketing................................................................59 3 Table 41. Project support for Chick pea input supply system ...............................................60 Table 42. Project support for chickpea production................................................................60 Annex 1. Baseline data..........................................................................................................62