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TROPICAL LEGUMES III

Objective 6: Developing Sustainable and

Impact-Oriented Legume Seed Systems for

Smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

L.O. Omoigui, T. Iloman, and A.Y. Kamara.

Presented at the TL III meeting held in Livingstone, Zambia 3 to 4 March, 2016

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In-Country Launch/Work Plan for 2016

A multi-stakeholder workshop was convened at IITA Kano,

Nigeria on 15th February 2016 to concretize implementation of

project activities for 2016 cropping season

The workshop was attended by scientists from IITA, ICRISAT,

ABU/IAR, BUK, UAM, FUDMA, Directors/extension officers of

the focusing State ADPs, NGOs, Seed Companies, other

development partners (USAID cowpea upscaling, SG2000-Nigeria,

cowpea and groundnut grower associations as well as other

stakeholders along the cowpea and groundnut value chains. A total

of 34 (m:31; f:3) participants attended the workshop

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Participants that attended the multi-stakeholders workshop

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Presentation of Project Objectives and Plenary Feedback

Each objective leader for objective 1,

2, 3 and 6 presented information on

what each objective seeks to achieve

and the activities that need to be

undertaken. Brief plenary discussions

were held to clarify each objective

and raise any issue that need to be

considered to effectively implement

each project objective.

Discussion of Objective-based Activity Plan in the Breakout Groups

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milestone Work plan/remarks Time line

One multi-stakeholder

platform established for

cowpea and Groundnut

Existing multi-stakeholder platform will be

strengthened and expanded to accommodate more

partners along the cowpea and groundnut value

chain. Partners will include:

- ADPs of focusing States: (KNARDA, JARDA,

UAM (Leader Cp), USAID Cowpea Scaling

Project, N2Africa, NGOs: (Green Sahel, WOFAN),

Seed Companies (Greenspore, Maina Seeds, Jukur

Seed, Cowpea Marketers Association and

Community Based-Seed Organization (CBO)

April/May to plan for rainy

season activities

November/December to plan

for dry season activities

Platform members

trained in seed

production and business

management Gnut:

2500, Cp: 800)

Three training workshop will be conducted:

i) improve production practices in legumes

ii) harvest and postharvest handling

iii) marketing & business management

KNARDA, BSADP, JARDA, KTARDA & Green

Sahel

KNARDA, JARDA & BNARDA will train 300,

300 and 200 participants, respectively, for cowpea

May/June

October/November

December/February

Activity 6.1. Establish Multi-Stakeholders Platforms

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Activity 6.2. Sustainable Production and Delivery of

Various Seed Classes milestone Remarks/stakeholder Time line

a). Basic seed produced in

Nigeria for groundnut (1067t)

and cowpea (533t)

Land area to be cultivated = 470 ha. Seed

rate of 20 kg/ha; Breeder seed requirement

= 9.4 tons

Target of productivity = 1.1 t/ha

Total production target = 517+ tons

Seed Companies, UAM, Out-growers

schemes, other partners to produce the

required seed

June to

November 2016

b). Certified and quality

declared/truthfully-labeled

seed produced in Nigeria

cowpea (8000t)

Land area to be cultivated = 2,416 ha. Seed

rate of 20 kg/ha; foundation seed

requirement = 48.4 tons

Target of productivity = 1.0 t/ha at national

level

Total production target = 2,416+ tons

Seed Companies, CBOs, NGOs, Out-

growers schemes, other partners to

produce the required seed

June to

November 2016

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Activity 6.3. Innovative and Targeted Seed Marketing

milestone Remarks/stakeholder Time line

a). cowpea; 5% each crop,

at least 200 packets (1-5 kg)

of FPVs made available with

25% increase per year

Seed Companies, and seed

producers will be encouraged to

sell seed in small packs (1-5 kg)

of affordable prices to farmers

May to

August

b). Seed companies (3 for

cowpea); farmer

organizations (12 for each

legume); public seed

enterprise (2 for each

legume); individual

entrepreneurs (12 for each

legume) in seed production

with 50% increase per year.

Strengthened at least I seed

company, 2 farmers’

organizations, 3 individual

entrepreneurs to engage in seed

production in each participating

State

May to

September

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Activity 6.4. Popularize New Varieties milestone Remarks/stakeholder Time line

a).Copies of seed production,

postharvest, seed business management

guides produced and shared with

partners annually (2500 copies)

IITA, will produce copies

of production guide and

circulate among partners

August

b).50 Demonstrations for each crop to

be established each year.

Demonstrations to include basic

N2Africa-recommended package of

inoculum and agronomy practices.

JARDA and BNARDA to

establish 30 and 20

demonstration,

respectively.

July/August

c).Field days (50% female participants)

held annually for each crop (2 for

cowpea).

JARDA and BNARDA to

conduct 3 and 2 field days

each.

September/N

ov.

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Cont’d milestone Remarks/stakeholder Time line

d).Electronic (TV,

radio) programs per

crop and print

media disseminated

annually in each

country (for

cowpea).

- At least 1 TV, radio and print

media programs for cowpea in

Kano, Jigawa and Benue

June to

November

e). Agri/seed

fairs/exhibition

/shows (50% female

participation)

organized per year

and per country

[WCA-CP: 5].

BNARD and Green Sahel to

conduct at least 1 Agric-fair in

2016

June to

November

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