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Scaling Up Sorghum and Millet Technologies: To increase productivity, improve nutrition and better incomes

  1. Scaling Up Sorghum and Millet Technologies To increase productivity, improve nutrition and better incomes To increase the incomes of sorghum and pearl millet producers in targeted intervention areas by raising productivity and profitability of these cereals. Goal 1. Enhancing farmers’ knowledge of available productivity enhancing technologies 2. Enhancing farmers’ access to improved technologies by strengthening linkages and trust between suppliers of key inputs and the producers. Open-pollinated varieties and hybrids of sorghum and millet, seed treatment, integrated soil fertility and Striga management, and biological control of the millet head miner. Farmers who adopted these improved technologies for sorghum and pearl millet production in their field have increased their yield by 51 percent for sorghum and 72 percent for Pearl Millet. Objective Technologies Adoption Improved seed See multipliers trained under project’ supervision have produced more than 740 tons of certified seeds. Main achievements Enhancing male and female farmers’ knowledge of new sorghum and millet production technologies: 29,852 Farmer Field Schools (FFS) facilitators (including 10,448 women) trained on best agriculture practices including; integrated Striga and soil fertility management, seed treatment and biological control of millet head miner among others. 261,197 farmers (among them 91,419 women) trained by 476 extensionists (including 165 women) trained in agriculture best practices for both millet and sorghum. 1,082 seed producers (including 378 women) trained on seed production techniques and post-harvest handling. A total of 68,299 hectares covered by above improved technologies. Facilitating the adoption of new hybrids and Open-Pollinated Varieties (OPV) of sorghum Grain yield has increased by Yield has increased by 51% Sorghum 51% Sorghum 72% Pearl millet 72% Pearl millet Agronomics practices 10,799demonstration plots established in Sikasso region. 285 villages covered for 1500 beneficiaries. 34 Innovation Platforms initiated (Sikasso 29 and Mopti 5). 85% Soil fertility management and access to inputs for 15%. 3 IPs introduced to warrantage approach. Partners AKF, AOPP, CRS, CMD -Nord- Est, CMDT- Sud, EUCORD, IER, SPROXIL, myAgro, MALIMARK. Sorghum hybrid 270 ton 314 tons 156 tons Improved sorghum variety (OPV) Improved millet variety (OPV) Project Period May 1, 2014 – April 30, 2019 Budget US$18,275,782 Contact j.nzungize@cgiar.org a.diama@cgiar.org Project Name: Africa RISING’s Large-scale Diffusion of Technologies for Sorghum and Millet Systems (ARDT_SMS).
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