1. INVC – BRIDGING ACTIVITY END OF YEAR PRESANTATION CADECOM Lilongwe Hotel 29th – 30th June, 2017

2. PRESENTATION LAY OUT Introduction Progress made on planned activities
Challenges
Recommendation
Progress in pictures

3. INTRODUCTION
Dedza CADECOM in collabollation with IITA with funding from USAID are implementing an Integrating Nutrition in Value Chains (INVC) Bridging Activity project in the districts of Dedza and Ntcheu.
In Ntcheu the project is in the Extension Planning Areas(EPAs) of Njolomole and Bilila while in Dedza the project is being implemented in the EPAs of Chafumbwa and Kanyama.

4. In Ntcheu the project is promoting Soy bean value chain and in Dedza it is promoting Groundnuts value chain.
The project is targeting 4,100 beneficiaries in the first year and this will be increased in the next year through seed loan revolving of good seed. Thus 1,000 beneficiaries per EPA in the first year. The collaborating partners in this project are IITA as the donor, MISST, ICRISAT, and DAES.

5. PLANNED ACTIVITIES FOR THE PERIOD
Project staff meeting
Verification of project beneficiaries
Association meetings
Seed distribution
Farmer mobilization for trainings

6. Facilitate Aggregation of crops for marketing
Facilitating Seed recovery
Conduct Field Days on field management and harvesting.
Review meetings with staff
Monitoring and supervision

7. Progress of Planned Activities for the Period
ACTIVITY
TARGET
ACHIEVED
COMMENTS
Project staff meeting.
1 meeting 1
10 CADECOM project staff attended the meeting. Staff were briefed about the INVC – bridging activity
Beneficiary registration
4,000
5,306
2,260m and 3,046 f have been registered in the 4 EPAs
Association monthly meetings.
28 meetings 25
The meetings discussed issues like beneficiary registration, seed distribution, seed loan recovery, marketing etc.
Seed distribution.
40.0mt
41.5mt
Chafumbwa and Kanyama distributed more than what was estimated. 25mt of g/nuts and 16.5mt soy distributed to 3886 beneficiaries.

8. Trainings
Field management
Harvesting
Marketing
a) for staff and
b) lead farmers
4 trainings
1 training 4 1
101 females and 131 males (lead farmers) trained inland preparation , weeding, pest and disease management. These are expected to train their fellow farmers
74f and 75m attended the training on Harvesting and Postharvest Handling
5 CADECOM staff and 4 AEDCs attended the training on how ACE works
Lead farmers and selected club leaders were trained on ACE operation and collective marketing. The trainings were done by ACE. 55m, 56f attended the training and these agreed to trickle the message to their fellow farmers.

9. Facilitate Aggregation of crops for marketing.
200mt soy
30mt
Some GACs has not yet given the amount aggregated. The activity is going on.
50mt g/nuts -
Farmers have just started aggregating
Facilitating Seed recovery.
32mt soy
10mt
The recovery is still going on, it has just stated.
30mt g/nuts
5mt
Low recovery due to seed germination problems and Aflatoxin attack more especially in Kanyama
Conduct Field Days on field management and harvesting 8
Two field days per EPA. The first one on field management and the other one on Harvesting and Postharvest handling. 514f and 506 males attended the field days.

10. Review meetings with staff2 1
One to be done later. The aim is to discuss the progress and way forward
Data collection
There have been 2 data collection exercise in all the 4 EPAs. The first one was on Technology adoption and the other one was on yield.
Monitoring and supervision.
These are monthly field visits made by CADECOM project staff, the aim of these visits is to see if lead farmers are training fellow farmers and if farmers are following the technologies that they were trained.

11. Challenges
Low attendance during community trainings (Trainings conducted by Lead Farmers)
Poor germination of groundnuts

12. Recommendation
Germination taste should be carried out by the farmers before planting.

13. Progress in Pictures
Famers waiting for seed distribution in Kanyama EPA
A beneficiary after receiving her seed

14. GAP training in progress
One of the marketing training in Njolomole

15. Staff training in marketing at ACE offices in Lilongwe

16. Fig 6. Aggregated produce and seed recovery

17. Field days in progress

18. Adoption of double row planting
A farmer in her soy field in Bilila

19. End of Presentation
Thank you