1. Technology packages for genetic intensification
Bright Jumbo
Dan Makumbi
NVPR Ganga Rao
Will Munthali
Elirehema Swai
Jackson Shija
Lucas Mirambo
Patrick Okori

2. Livelihood assets: Crops predominate income sources & food security
Legumes: Groundnuts, pigeonpea and cowpea and cereals: Maize, Sorghum and pearl millet are key food security crops

3. Critical statistics the theme: Cropping/farming systems for KK
50% of the HH are large families, with 5-8 people.
Land holding: 36% 1-4 ha) and 20% 8 ha per household
Yield gap >50% for most crops eg maize (1-1.5t/ha) below 4.5t/ha; Groundnuts 530 kg/ha below tons/ha.
17% of respondent use fertilizer or manure
Less than 10% of farmers use improved seed

4. Research programming Result area Research question
Validated SI innovations and options improve prospects for increased productivity and resilience in K&K
Research question
What are the best-bet technology packages that can sustainably catalyze improvement in productivity, resilience and value chain functionality for semi arid agro-ecologies of Kongwa and Kiteto

5. Targeted ESA results: KK inputs
Research Output 2:
Project level output
Milestone targets
Intermediate outputs
Project Output 5: Innovations that increase resilience and productivity of farming systems deployed
5.1 Inventory of new crops and new varieties grown by farmers per intervention site by Sept. 2016
5.2 % of farmers growing at least one new variety or type of crop in each intervention site by Sept. 2016
5.3 Acreage under new ecologically and economically sound practices per intervention site by Sept. 2016
New highly productive and resilient varieties released.
Integrated cereal & legume technologies supported by new varieties

6. R&D pathway
Yrs 1-2
Technology testing
site characterization

7. Partnership profile and changes
Role then
Role now
ARI Hombolo
Anchor Host
ARI Naliendele
Grain legume Research- Variety release
Variety release
and leverage scaling. TLIII
ICRISAT
Variety introduction
Support variety release and adoption studies
Local Governments
Onfarm R&D activities
and adoption studies

8. key results
Clarified yield gap:
Maize and sorghum over 50%.
Legumes >40%
Improving productivity and closing the yield gap.
Maize: QPM lines with fivefold higher yield potential (i.e tons/ha for T compared to KILIMAQH06 with 0.41 tons/ha).
Sorghum and pearl millet lines (>up to 53% higher yield
Groundnut and pigeonpea (with up to 122%
yield advantage
Bambara nut with a 126% yield advantage
Relevance and adaptability of technologies. Participatory variety selection deployed
1,217 farmer (40% being female) in 2013 and 1795 in – a similar proportion of women farmers

9. key results
PVS identified farmer preferred technologies
Groundnuts: ICGV -SM and ICGV-SM 02724, ICGV-SM 03519; Pigeonpea: ICEAP 00557, ICEAP 00554and ICEAP 00040;
Maize- CML141/ and CML141/CML395, LISHE_H2;
Pearl millet- ICMV and ICMV-221
Sorghum- Gadam, ICSMV 111 IN and Kari Mtama.
New varieties released:
Maize and groundnuts
Sorghum and pearl millet (proposed)

10. Status quo and moving forward
Done: New varieties and or tested lines available
Ongoing: Clarifying adoption pathways via Farmer Research Networks
Gap areas: (RO to outcomes level)
Fit for purpose varieties
Complex cropping and farming systems.. Some work needed
Scaling-out of new materials
Seed road maps and delivery systems (formal and informal)
Leverage other investments
HOPE, TLIII, McKnight, USAID and Agri-related investments and the CRP etc

11. Thank you