BURE PILOT LEARNING WOREDA DIAGNOSIS AND PROGRAM DESIGN July, 2007 Table of Content LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................. IV LIST OF FIGURES ............................................................................................................ VI LIST OF ANNEXS ............................................................................................................ VII 1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................... 1 2. BIO-PHYSICAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF BURE ............. 2 2.1. Location, area and population .................................................................................................................... 2 2.2. Climate ................................................................................................................................................................ 4 2.3. Soils..................................................................................................................................................................... 8 2.4. Water resource ................................................................................................................................................. 9 2.5. Land use .......................................................................................................................................................... 11 2.6. Vegetation cover and Topography .......................................................................................................... 13 2.7. Farming systems ........................................................................................................................................... 13 2.7.1 Cereal/pepper/ livestock farming system ............................................................................................... 14 2.7.2 Cereals/potato/livestock farming system................................................................................................ 19 2.8. Environmental challenges .......................................................................................................................... 23 3. INSTITUTIONS ..........................................................................................................25 3.1. Marketing ......................................................................................................................................................... 25 3.2. Input supply .................................................................................................................................................... 31 3.3. Rural Finance ................................................................................................................................................. 33 3.4. Women Affairs Office ................................................................................................................................... 38 3.5. Agricultural extension service .................................................................................................................. 39 3.6. HIV/AIDS service ........................................................................................................................................... 42 3.7. Bure ATVET College ..................................................................................................................................... 43 4. PRIORITY COMMODITY ANALYSIS & POTENTIAL INTERVENTIONS ............... 44 5. OUTLINE OF PROGRAM OF WORK BURE WOREDA PLS .................................. 65 5.1. Priority commodities & Natural resource management technologies .......................................... 65 5.2. PLS Knowledge management –general (RBM Code 100 Series) .................................................... 65 ii 5.3. PLS public institutional capacity building (RBM code 200 series) ................................................ 67 5.4. PLS sustainable livelihood development (RBM code series 300) .................................................. 69 5.4.1. Pepper .......................................................................................................................................................... 70 5.4.2. Bread wheat ............................................................................................................................................... 72 5.4.3. Fruit .............................................................................................................................................................. 74 5.4.4. Potato ........................................................................................................................................................... 76 5.4.5. Shallot .......................................................................................................................................................... 77 5.4.6. Faba bean ................................................................................................................................................... 79 5.4.7. Fattening (cattle and sheep fattening) ............................................................................................... 81 5.4.8. Poultry ......................................................................................................................................................... 83 5.4.9. Dairy (butter/milk production) .............................................................................................................. 84 5.4.10. Apiculture ................................................................................................................................................... 86 6. ANNEXES ..................................................................................................................88 iii List of Tables TABLE 1 POPULATION AND HOUSEHOLDS BY SEX IN URBAN AND RURAL AREAS OF BURE WEREDA ................................................................................................................................................................. 3 TABLE 2 HOUSEHOLD SIZE, POPULATION, AREA AND AGRO-ECOLOGY OF PAS AND THEIR DISTANCE ............................................................................................................................................................... 3 TABLE 3 AREA AND PRODUCTION OF DIFFERENT CROPS IN BURE WOREDA IN 2005/6 .................... 7 TABLE 4 LIVESTOCK POPULATION IN BURE WOREDA IN 2004/5 .................................................................. 8 TABLE 5 LIST OF RIVERS DIVERTED FOR IRRIGATION AND NUMBER OF BENEFICIARIES................. 9 TABLE 6 LIST OF MAJOR RIVERS TRADITIONALLY DIVERTED AND AREA OF LAND IRRIGATED .... 10 TABLE 7 AREA AND TYPES OF CROPS GROWN WITH IRRIGATION IN 2006 ........................................... 11 TABLE 8 LAND USE TYPE IN BURE WOREDA (2006/7) .................................................................................... 12 TABLE 9 DOMINANT CROP AND LIVESTOCK TYPES OF EACH FARMING SYSTEM .............................. 14 TABLE 10 MULTI-PURPOSE COOPERATIVES IN BURE WEREDA, MEMBERS AND THEIR CAPITAL IN 2006/7 ...................................................................................................................................................................... 28 TABLE 11 AMOUNT OF CHEMICAL FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTED BY DAMOT UNION ................................ 33 TABLE 12 AMOUNT OF MONEY BORROWED FROM ACSI IN 2006 AT BURE BY ACTIVITY .................. 34 TABLE 13 SAVING AND CREDIT COOPERATIVES IN BURE WOREDA, MEMBERS AND THEIR CAPITAL IN 2006/7 ............................................................................................................................................. 37 TABLE 14 MANPOWER OF BURE WOREDA OOARD BY EDUCATION LEVEL AND TEAM ..................... 39 TABLE 15 NUMBER OF DAS AT BURE BY SEX AND PROFESSION IN 2007 .............................................. 42 TABLE 16 HIV/AIDS PREVALENCE AT BURE WOREDA BASED ON AGE GROUPS ................................. 43 TABLE 17 BREAD WHEAT ......................................................................................................................................... 44 TABLE 18 PULSES (FABA BEAN)............................................................................................................................. 47 TABLE 19 PEPPER ....................................................................................................................................................... 48 TABLE 20 POTATO ...................................................................................................................................................... 50 TABLE 21 SHALLOT ..................................................................................................................................................... 52 TABLE 22 TROPICAL AND SUB-TROPICAL FRUITS .......................................................................................... 54 TABLE 23 CATTLE FATTENING ................................................................................................................................ 56 TABLE 24 DAIRY ........................................................................................................................................................... 57 TABLE 25 SHEEP FATTENING ................................................................................................................................