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Page 1: Malawi Annual Report, April 2011 March 2012...Malawi Annual Report, April 2011‐March 2012 Vito Sandifolo Country Manager Chancellor College, Zomba Summary of Malawi strategy •

Malawi Annual Report, April 2011‐March 2012

Vito SandifoloCountry Manager

Chancellor College, Zomba

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Summary of Malawi strategy

• The strategy in Malawi focuses on developing two value chains for HQCF– Sundried value chain involving community processing groups  and small  entrepreneurs to supply HQCF to rural end users (primarily mandazimakers, Bakers of scones, cakes, doughnuts, buns and medium scale bakeries based district centres)

– Artificial dried value chain involving commercial private sector processors  to supply HQCF to paperboard companies, biscuit manufacturers and millers 

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Estimated demand for HQCF Type of Market

Estimated demand for wheat (ton/yr)

Estimated demand for HQCF(ton/yr)

Experiences  after 2 years of C:AVA

Potentialsupply chain

Millers 49,000 4,900 (10%) Untapped Flash dryer

Rural retail

36,000 7,200 (20%) 18,000 (50%) Sundried 

Biscuit 10,000 2,500 (25%) 3000‐5000 (30‐50%)

Flash dryer

Paper board & other

750           (maize starch)

750(100%!) Untapped Flash dryer

Total 95,750 15,350 + 23,750

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Revised milestonesKey milestone Target 2010‐11 Target 2011‐12 Target 2012‐13

No. of farmers selling to flash dryer

‐ 75 3600 farmers203 processors

Farmers benefiting ($93/yr) from sundried HQCF

78  200  400

Processors benefiting  ($125/yr) from sundried HQCF

35 90 180

New flash dryer in operation with C:AVA support

‐ 1 unit installed in Malawi by October 2011

1unit operating and 2 new units installed

Increase in production & sales of HQCF

15.0 tons  112tons74 rural

38t commercial

2,100250t rural

1,388t commercial

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Achievements against revised milestones as of March 2012

Key milestone Revised target Target achieved Remarks

No. O f farmers selling to flash dryer

75 0 Delays in installing dryer

Farmers benefiting ($) from sundried HQCF

200 978 From C:AVA and non C:AVA groups

Processors benefiting ($) from sundried HQCF

90 327 Including members of processing groups and employees

Increase in production & sales of HQCF

74 tons  123.7 tons Processing groups utilizing any dry day for processing due to markets demand

HQCF purchased by end users

1797 total for all countries

130.3 tons 2.1 tons in stock(HQCF assoc)

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Highlights of activities Monitoring of prices for  selected products

Product 1st quarter (MK/ton)

2nd Quarter(MK/ton)

3rd Quarter(MK/ton)

4th Quarter(MK/ton)

Wheat flour (WS) 100,000 163,000 210,000 240,000

Wheat flour (retail) 130,000 200,000 250,000 300,000

Makaka (FG) 5,000 10,000 7,000 10,000

Makaka (MP) 15,000 15,000 10,000 15,000

Makaka (Fact G) 27,000 25,000 23,000 25,000

Makaka flour 43,000 45,000 45,000 45,000

HQCF (WS) 65,000 70,000 80,000 80,000

HQCF retail 80,000 80,000 100,000 100,000/120

Diesel (MK/litre) 260 260 360 360/600

Exchange rate (O) 152 163.4 165.4 166.7

Un official 175 200 210 270

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Highlight of activities (sun‐dried value chain)• Continued to conduct end user trials for rural bakers to sell the remaining HQCF from 2010/11 season

• Monitored sales of HQCF at various trading centres where first end user demonstrations were conducted ‐at the same time measuring quality of the product– HQCF sales started going up at Nkando trading centre in Mulanje‐ Premixed flour was selling at K110/kg

– Five processors opened  shops for HQCF (in KK‐ had good sales after radio promotion)

– Noted good HQCF sales amongst mandazi, wedding cakes and maganja makers 

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Highlights cont’dFacilitated testing of quality parameters for HQCF at CHANCO laboratory

Sample Particlesize (%)

Moisture content (%)

Solubility (%)

pH CN content (ppm)

Colour Ordour

MJ border wheat

91.37weevils, 

9.33 + 0.59 8.50 6.0 0‐5 Pale yellow

None

KK HQCF 97.7 9.58 +0.89 6.17 5.8 0‐5 White None

AZAM 100 12.97 + 0.12 7.03 6.4 0‐5 cream None

Old MaulaHQCF

98.2 11.01 + 0.01 2.44 6.0 20‐30 White None

TiyamikeHQCF

98.0 10.58 + 0.16 2.19 6.0 0‐5 White None

CMRTE HQCF

96.8 9.87 + 2.81 3.69 5.8 0‐5 White None

KK wheat 99.0 11.14 + 0.06 4.67 5.8 0‐5 White None

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Provided capacity building activities on various topicsType of training

Participants Total Remarks

Male Female Service providers

Business mgt 48 32 12 92 For members of VPGs

Quality mgt systems

10 3 4 17 Facilitated by Louise

Marketing 11 3 0 14 Two phased training

Product development 

306 448 28 782 By C:AVA and VPGs

Equipment maintenance

9 3 2 14 Consultants

Cassava agronomy

143 89 16 248 Small scale & commercial

HQCF quality assessment

5 1 0 6 Labtechnicians

Total 532 579 62 1421

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Activities undertaken by VPGs after business management and marketing trainings

• It was confirmed that there was ready market for HQCF in rural areas from mandazi makers and scone bakers

• Most of the VPGs expanded drying areas• Some of VPGs opened selling points for HQCF and other ingredients for rural baking e.g. sugar, yeast, baking powder & wheat flour– Problems of premixed flour & poor yeast 

• Draft business plans were developed which showed different break‐even prices for VPG

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Estimated g/margins for village processing units

Name of group

Estimated prodn

S/ price

Revenue Variablecosts

Margins BE/price

Tiyamike 8000 80 640000 369536 270464 46

Old Maula

10000 80 800000 514500 285500 51

CMRTE 12960 80 1036800 597500 439300 46Mkandawire 12000 80 960000 632600 327400 53Kasiyamaliro 16000 80 1280000 732800 547200 46

Chisi 2574 75 193050 112498 80552 44

Chikaonda 20000 80 1600000 1081300 518700 54

73534 79 49

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Expansion in drying areasName of VPG Old drying area

(square metres)New drying are (square metres)

Qty of HQCF /day (tons)

Remarks

Tiyamike 60 120 0.24 Also moulded 40,000 bricks 

CMRTE 90 180 0.36 Constructed warehouse

Old Maula 120 120 0.24 ‐

Chiaonda ‐ 60 0.12 Opened HQCFshop

Chisi ‐ 120 0.24 Opened 2 shops

Kasiyamaliro ‐ 140 0.28 Has plastic dryer

Mkandawire ‐ 120 0.24 Was sick for some time

NKPA 90 ‐ ‐ ‐

Press 480 480 0.96 Was disolved

Total 840 1185 2.68

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Highlight of activities‐sundried value chain cont’d

• Participated in national agriculture fairs and national commission of science and technology activities‐Advocacy for HQCF

• Conducted commercial end user trials with bread and biscuit companies using HQCF from sundried value chain‐Universal for composite mandazi mix flour & Mothers Holding for bread and other bakery products

• Formed HQCF processors association – Draft constitution developed with assistance from NASFAM– Discuss potential threats to HQCF industry– Plan for advocacy meetings with MoAFS

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Highlights of activities cont’d• Facilitated development and submission of proposal to U.S 

Ambassador’s self help fund for construction of processing and storage shed at Tiyamike Processing group– Member of parliament provided funds to start construction– Requested for proposal to assist in sourcing funds

• Presented key lessons and challenges several of the sundried value chain at several fora which facilitated other projects to adopt C:AVA model– Root and Tuber Crops Innovation Platform (RTCIP)– Trustees of Agriculture Promotion project launch (TAPP)– Wellness & Agriculture for Life Advancement (WALA)– Millennium Villages Project (MVP)– Land O Lakes (FFP)

• Facilitated planting of demonstration plots with improved cassava varieties and promising clones for HQCF at CMRTE

• Ordered commercial presses for NKKP processors

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Highlights of activities with artificial dried value chain

• Provided support towards investment in flash dryer by Universal industries by:a) Providing cassava seed to 7 commercial growers and 

providing agronomy supportb) 5500 bundles of cassava seed given to 7 commercial 

growers who planted more than 42ha‐ also to act as seed multipliers for surrounding smallholder farmers‐ estimated to supply seed for 400 ha to be planted by over 1000 farmers

c) Facilitated updating of business plan for loan application from the project for procurement of flash dryer‐ due to forex problems

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Support to Universal continuedd) Facilitated cassava seed distribution and price 

negotiations between UI and Millennium Villages project 

i. 1880 bundles of cassava seed distributed to MVP farmersii. Provided agronomy support to farmers in MVPiii. Maintained 2 ha of cassava nursery under DARS iv. Prices of K9000‐10000/ton agreed between farmers and Universal Industries

e) Facilitated follow up meetings with potential buyers of HQCF e.g. PIM to ensure continued interest in buying HQCF. The company has invested in installing cooling systems to be able to use HQCF following recommendations from C:AVA

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Progress made towards investment in flash dryer by Universal Industries 

• Flash dryer has been ordered and under construction

• Flash dryer to be shipped from Nigeria by 19th of March 

• Drawings of processing structure agreed by board at Njuli (Over K20 Million worth of investment)

• Logo for HQCF by Universal Industries agreed

• Currently in the process of estimating yield from various production areas and developing schedule for supply

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Highlights of activities artificial dried value chain cont’d

• Facilitated development of business plan for Rab Processors– Draft business plan available– Will wait to study operations of first flash dryer by Universal Industries 

Another private investor (Former Chief Executive of  Press Agriculture )has shown interest to establish flash dryer in Lilongwe

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Challenges for sun dried value chain• Inappropriate (capacity, quality) processing equipment such as presses for some of the pilot processing entrepreneurs especially in  Nkhotakota– Lack of appropriate milling screens affecting particle size of HQCF for all groups‐ correct screen for <250m‐ New sieve now identified from Tanzania‐Size 7

– Lack of hammer mills for Old Maula and TiyamikeGreen Belt (mill 3Km away)

• Bad quality wheat flour supplied by unscrupulous vendours especially in Mulanje

• Variability in fresh roots : HQCF across the season

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Challenges cont’d• Limitations is processing capacity to supply HQCF during the wet season

• Quality management by some processing groups ‐Some groups making short cuts to supply available markets

• Continued increase in wheat flour prices• Scarcity of fuel for activity implementation• Inability of service providers to provide services as agreed in contract document

• Availability of low quality wheat flour in trading centres along the borders with Mozambique‐which do not produce good results when mixed with HQCF

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Challenges for artificial dried value chain

• Economic hardships faced by the country‐ lack of forex, fuel

• Delays due to bureaucratic procedures by investors 

• Cassava diseases especially Cassava mosaic disease

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Key lessons • Big limitations in sun dried value chain. It is difficult to process big volumes due to problems of drying –Hence problems of targeting big markets

• Quality of product (moisture content, particle size, pH, fibre content, colour) fluctuations between various processing groups‐hence requiring constant supervision from project staff despite various capacity building activities‐ need to focus on quality monitoring

• Dispelling the notion that Big is better and embracing the principle that small is beautiful‐Bigger markets may not be the best always

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Key Lessons • Both small scale and commercial processors have room to play to be able to establish a vibrant and sustainable HQCF value chain. Each one of them has a niche market to target

• The need to identify and involve drivers/innovators in establishing a new value chain. While most projects focus on resource poor smallholder farmers, it is difficult to depend on them to develop a viable value chain.  No serious investor will make decision based on such conditions

• Importance of practical, result‐oriented training to achieve desired results

• Moving beyond the VPU and venturing into the market. ‐Importance of Building capacity for ownership of the process

• It’s all about money (and quality) !!!!!

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Success stories1. Tiyamike processing group wins Presidential award as best farmer organization at National Agriculture Fair (2011)

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Success stories 2. Mr Chisi one of the processing entrepreneurs increases HQCF sales by sponsoring radio promotion, opens  new HQCF shop and sells composite mandazi to secondary school

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Success story 3. Marketing training for sun dried groups opens up new market opportunities for HQCF in Malawi by October 2011

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90.0 Sales volume (t)

Sales volume (t)

Aug 10 Mar 11 Aug 11 Oct 11 Nov 11

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Success stories cont’d

4. HQCF saves rural mandazi makers and bakers  from bankruptcy 

5. Lessons from C:AVA provide model for other projects to follow in commercializing cassava  TAPP WALA Land O Lakes (Food For Progress Project) MVP Mulanje DADO starting new group in Milonde EPA

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Direction of C:AVA in MW if no further funding is available

• The HQCF value chain will continue as it has been proven that it is viable  but in limited areas

• Quality of HQCF may become an issue as most processing groups still need to take quality issues seriously

• Scaling up and out the sun‐dried  value chain will continue by other partners but may have problems as they will need to have source of information for consultations as the value chain is still in its infancy 

• The HQCF association will play key roles of advocacy and other roles but still needs mentoring

• Private sector investment may slow down as they still need a lot of information on the artificial value chain 

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If funding is available• Scaling out of the value chain will be faster to new areas and districts‐ thereby increasing the contribution of HQCF 

• It will be easier to get new investors to establish artificial  dryers and thereby increasing number of beneficiaries

• Quality management by sun dried groups will be consolidated 

• The HQCF processing association will be properly mentored to undertake issues on HQCF thereby making it more sustainable

• It will be easy to identify new market opportunities for HQCF within the country and region 

• Group cohesion and business management skills will be consolidated

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Thank you

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Workplan for rural value chainActivity By who A M J J A S O N D J F M

TOT‐Service Providers on QMS LA x

TOT of business management for VPG managers 

BDA x

Conduct targeted Marketcampaign/promotion

BDA x x x x x x

Conduct training on equipment maintenance

Consultant x

Provide agronomy support to rural growers

CM x x x x x x

Provide support towards equipment (sieves, presses graters)

CM x x x x

Support towards Chanco lab for quality control

AB/LA x

Training of HQCF processing for new groups

CM x x x

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Workplan (2011/12) for artificial dried value chainActivity By who A M J J A S O N D J F M

Installation of flash dryer UFML x

Finish construction of factory infrastructure

UFML x x

Testing and commissioning of flash dryer

UFML x

Training and tech support UFML x x x

Start processing HQCF UFML x

Establish agreements for FCR supply 

UFML x

Supply HQCF to markets UFML x x x x x x x x x x

Form cassava agronomy group VS x x x

Establish trials programme VS/DARS x x x x x x x

Provide technical support to commercial growers

VS x x x x x x x x x x x x

Loan repayment UFML x x x x

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Workplan for artificial dried value chainActivity By who A M J J A S O N D J F M

Develop theoretical planting programs  ‐ Planting

VS x x x

Harvesting UFML x x x x x x x x x x x

Identify small‐farmer groups near factories

VS/com growers

x x x

Provide training to farmer groups  VS x

Update PIM trails AG/LA x x

Conduct regional market studies VS/MS x x

Evaluate Flexible Packaging AG/LA x

Undertake DW trials AG/LA x

Undertake trials at Flexible Packaging

AG/LA x

Finalize business plan for Rab HL x x

Meet other donors VS/MS x x x x x x

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Workplan for sundried value chainActivity By who A M J J A S O N D J F M

Monitor market linkages and HQCF quality

VS x x x x x x x x x x x x

Provide training to new groups with partners

VS/VK x x x

Provide equipment to new groups

VS x

Provide training to members of HQCF association

VS x x

Assess market linkages for new groups

VS/VK x x x x x x

Provide business mgt training to new groups

VS/VK x

Provide QMS training to new groups

VS/LA x x

Media campaign VS x x x x x x x x

Participate in meetings VS/VK x x x x x x x x x x x x