Enhancing partnership among AfricaRISING, NAFAKA and TUBORESHE CHAKULA Programs for fast Tracking delivery and scaling of agricultural technologies in Tanzania Jonne Rodenburg, Senthilkumar Kalimuthu, Gaudiose Mujawamariya Rice Team Leaders

Content Summary description of key activities Targets: numbers reached versus numbers targeted Key Results: outputs and outcomes achieved Partners: stakeholders participated Reasons for any under-achievements or over- achievements Challenges and constraints Lessons learned, e.g. Which activities are working best? Which activities need improvement? What changes would you recommend? Planning for QRT4

Summary of Activities Demonstrating and developing a locally fabricated motorized paddy weeder 2.Development of an electronic decision support tool for farmers to aid with weed management 3.Efficiency of soil and foliar applied micronutrients under three rice growing conditions and their economic implication to rice farmers 4.Farmer-participatory on-farm Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and weed management demonstrations in Kilombero and Kyela 5.Baseline & diagnostic surveys to generate data from all categories of value-chain actors 6.Train farmers and other value-chain actors and reinforce capacity to enhance efficiency along the value chain 7.Train technical staff of project staff, partners and collaborators and conduct experimental auctions in Morogoro

Demonstrating and developing a locally fabricated motorized paddy weeder Four weeders 4 sites: Uyole (Mbeya); Msufini (Kilombero), Lower Moshi Irrigation Scheme (Moshi), Dakawa (Morogoro) 2 demos per site (21 and 42 DAT) 30 farmers per demo Aim: to select a model (or combination) to be developed into a first prototype Partners: Nafaka, MARI, KATC, Intermech, CAMARTEC, KATRIN, UARI

Development of an electronic decision support tool for farmers to aid with weed management Baptized ‘RiceAdvice – weeds’ High similarity and complementarity with RiceAdvice – soils Base-model produced Work plan developed with Co- capacity Approach discussed and determined Testing & Demos with Nafaka in Kilombero Partners: Nafaka, Co-capacity

Soil and foliar applied micro nutrition in rice: efficiency and economic benefits 30 on-farm demos in TZ Irrigated lowland (10) Rainfed lowland (10) Upland (10) 3 Reference treatments 5 Foliar nutrient products 1 Soil micro nutrient 2 blocks No NPK 80:40:40 kg ha –1

GAP demonstratoins in Kilombero 30 on-farm trials - all in rainfed lowland environments GAP component technologies introduced to the farmers 1) certified seeds of variety Saro 5 2) field bunding and leveling 3) dibble sowing in line 4) optimum & timely use of fertilizers (NPK) Partners: KATRIN, Nafaka

Parasitic weed management demos in Kyela 4 groups of 5 farmers per parasitic weed species (Striga and Rhamphicarpa) Demonstration of 4 strategies (selected by farmers – Varieties, Soil fertility, Sowing date and in combination) against farmer practice On-farm and farmer managed Questionnaires are held at 2 moments during the season Farmer exchange visits (April & June) Partners: MARI

Targets

Key Results Motorized weeders: o 120 farmers, 23 extensionists, 13 engineers and 6 researchers trained o Elements for locally improved weeders identified: (1) weeder tines of Indian type, (2) floater and engine of Japanese type Decision support tool: o 52 weed management strategies outlined, including 142 technologies … (ongoing) o Programming started

Key Results Foliar nutrition: o 30 farmers trained on GAP/NPK+SMN o Soil applied micro-nutrient plots (NPK+SMN) have best performance GAP testing & Parasitic weed control: o 30 farmers trained in GAP o 40 farmers trained in parasitic weed control o 75 farmers exposed to parasitic weed control options o Resistant NERICAs are preferred varieties o Rice husks identified as free and useful soil fertility amendment

Partners PartnerLocationContact personRole NafakaMorogoroSilvanus Mruma Overall partner in all on-farm and value chain work MARIDar es SalaamJuma Kayeke Motorized paddy weeder development KATCMoshiDominik Nkollo Motorized paddy weeder demonstrations KATRINIfakaraJerome Mghase - On-farm GAP work - Market and value chain work - Motorized paddy weeder demonstrations CAMARTECArushaGodfrey Mwinama Motorized paddy weeder development IntermechMorogoroPeter Chisawillo Motorized paddy weeder development and marketing Uyole ARIUyole - Ndabhemeye Mulengera - Dennis Tippe - Motorized paddy weeder demonstrations - On-farm parasitic weed control demos in Kyela Cholima ARIDakawaNdimubandi Mvukiye Motorized paddy weeder demonstrations IFDC/VFRCWashingtonPrem Bindraban Soil & Foliar nutrient application work Co-capacity Wageningen (Netherlands) Joost Lieshout Programmer of RiceAdvice-weeds ARI IlongaKilosaElisha Mkandya Baseline survey Market and value chain work

Planning QRT4 First version of weed management decision support tool ready Report on motorized rotary weeder demonstrations finalized, data analyzed and way forward discussed with Intermech Demonstration plots parasitic weed management harvested and data collection finalized Reporting on GAP and Soil & Foliar applied micronutrients demos

Baseline survey and crop protection analyses Socio-econ. baseline study: Village selection: 32 villages in Kilombero Survey in 15 villages o 10 households per village Including post-harvest actors Partners: Nafaka, ARI Ilonga Crop protection analyses: 68 stakeholders in southern highlands are interviewed Government agencies, private sector, NGOs, farmers Aim: to provide a deeper understanding of organisation, functioning and strategies of crop protection services Partners: MARI

Market visits for experimental auctions 2 markets, 1 supermarket Most consumed varieties Supa Ifakara & Supa Mbeya/Kyela Preference criteria aroma, taste, cleanness, % breakage, whiteness Price differences 200 to 800Tsh/kg across varieties 100 to 500Tsh/kg for breakage & whiteness Home-use-tests of varieties to use in EA Partners: Nafaka

Key Results Baseline & diagnostic surveys to inform value chain enhancement Entry of villages, respondents and variety into Mlax system

Key Results Value chain work: o 2 marketing agents from RUDI and MVIWATA, partners of Nafaka trained o Morogoro and Mawenzi markets o Participants: o 131 consumers, including 22 men and 109 women o Products: o Supa Kyela, Mbawambiri, IR05N221, Low quality market rice o Low quality rice was the benchmark product (1500TShs/Kg)

Key Results Value chain work: o Vickery auction: winner pays a second price o 9 sessions of 15 participants (except 1 st session) o 3 Individual sessions &1 collective session Tasting the cooked riceDiscussion in a collective session

Key Results Value chain work:  94% of the auctions participants prefer aromatic varieties  Consumers express less preference for the improved aromatic rice due to the high percentage of broken grains  Growing aromatic varieties with good milling qualities followed by proper post-harvest handling creates a niche in the market  yields-but-less-sales-researchers-seek- solution-to-aroma-preference- conundrum-in-tanzanias-rice-sector/ yields-but-less-sales-researchers-seek- solution-to-aroma-preference- conundrum-in-tanzanias-rice-sector/

Institutional challenges in crop protection services Reactive nature of plant health services identified: o Most attention for dealing with pest outbreaks and not preventive strategies Jurisdictional ambiguity between district crop protection officers and regulatory agencies: o E.g. plant health services and the tropical pesticides research institute (TPRI) Weak linkages and structural incoherence between research institutes under the ministry of agriculture and extension under local government ministry Insufficient capabilities and resources to support operations of the plant health services and extension.

Reasons for any under-achievements or over-achievements The rice team is achieving as planned on most of the activities The only activity where under-achievement can be observed is the capacity building of project staff; we have not been able yet to set a date, venue and list of participants of the IRM course We are currently over-achieving with the work on innovation systems as we have a new staff member on board (Dr Josey Kamanda) who is analyzing functioning of crop protection services

Challenges and constraints Experimental Auctions: o Supa Ifakara was not available, another local variety (Mbawambili) was used instead o IR05N221(Komboka) was supplied instead of SARO5: part of the data cannot be used as intended and the experiment will have to be repeated as we are targeting SARO5 Motorized weeders: o Some technical problems arose during demonstrations, in particular the engine of the Indian type o Weeder drums of the Japanese weeder need to to adapted to local soil conditions by changing rotation direction

Lessons Learned Which activities are working best? o All activities are working well o Partners are enthusiastic and cooperative o Soil applied micro nutrients better than foliar applied Which activities need improvement? o We have to work more on training project partner staff What changes would you recommend? o More emphasis on stakeholder participation and communications and innovation systems (including the analyses of crop protection services)

Planning QRT4 Training of value chain actors identification of constraints and challenges to VC development and identify opportunities for an efficient production and marketing system July, Morogoro: Kilombero hub including Nafaka & Kahama (SARD-SC) Baseline data collection of the sampled households in the villages of rice marketing activities 170 identified farmers and 185 other VC actors (including millers, sellers, restaurants etc.) Multi-stakeholder platform meeting

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