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Legume CHOICE Support Tool testing with actual data:
Ethiopia Team
Result of Focus Group Discussion
Knowledge of legumes and legume systems:
•All farmers are aware of the role of legumes in soil fertility improvement and in increasing the productivity of subsequent cereal crops.
•Also aware of the multipurpose functions of legumes
•They are not aware of the mechanisms by which legumes can improve soil fertility (N-fixation).
•Most farmers are not aware of the function of fodder tree legumes rather they use them for other purposes such as for shade and construction
Legume Species
Annual grain legumes
Perennial grain legumes
Tree legumes
Annual fodder legumes
No. Diga Jeldu Diga Jeldu Diga Jeldu Diga1 Ground nut 2 Haricot bean 3 Faba bean 4 Field pea 5 Ann.Climbing bean 6 Soy bean7 Lupin 8 Cow pea 9 Chick pea
10 Lentil11 Grass pea12 Fenugric13 Per. Climbing bean 14 Sesbania 15 Lucinea 16 Pigeon pea 17 Lab-lab 18 Tree Lucern19 Calindra20 Alfalfa21 Different acacia species
Legume species and their category grown in both field sites
Major legumes produced in each implementation sites
• Lalisa Dimtu: Ground nut, bush type haricot bean and perennial climbing bean were received highest frequency.
• Fromsa: Sesbania, annual climbing bean, faba bean and perennial climbing bean were dominant.
• Kolu-Galan:- Faba bean, field pea, chick pea, grass pea, tree Lucerne, Accacia
• Chillanko: Faba bean, field pea, chick pea, grass pea, lentil, accacia and tree Lucerne were frequently grown
Demand for legume functions from participatory matrix ranking
Demand for legume functions from pairwise ranking
Priorities for functions based on gender
Demand for functions based on Resource Endowment
Constraints of Legume production
Jeldu field site:•Soil fertility decline•Lack of improved seeds•High fungal disease incidence•High input (fertilizer) price•Lack of pesticides (fungicide)•Change of weather•Lack of awareness•Low market price of the product•Insect pests
Context score for resources constraints
Legume option attributes for legume function
Food Feed Income Erosion control Fuel Soil fertilityFaba bean Grain legume seasonal 10 3 5 1 0 4Field pea Grain legume seasonal 10 2 6 1 0 4Chick pea Grain legume seasonal 9 4 3 1 0 4Grass pea Grain legume perennial 12 5 2 1 0 3Alafalfa Herbaceous legume seasonal 0 8 0 3 0 6Calliandra Tree legume coppicing 0 4 0 3 0 6Sesbania Tree legume non-coppicing 0 4 0 3 0 6
Legume options attributes for legume intervention
Land Labour Capital Inputs and services Knowledge and skills Water MarketsFaba bean Grain legume seasonal 2 6 1 8 9 2 0Field pea Grain legume seasonal 4 8 1 12 9 2 0Chick pea Grain legume seasonal 3 6 1 12 9 2 0Grass pea Grain legume perennial 1 4 1 4 6 1 0Alafalfa Herbaceous legume seasonal 3 4 1 8 6 1 0Calliandra Tree legume coppicing 1 2 1 4 6 2 0Sesbania Tree legume non-coppicing 1 4 1 8 6 2 0
Plan for 2015
Location Rationale Constraint Intervention Activities Design Plot size Treatment Total # of farmers
Lalisa Dimtu
Farmers are looking for food and income from haricot bean
Lack of improved varieties and knowledge of ways to intercrop reduced legume yield
Creating awarness through training and demonstration of intercropping techniques can fill this gap
Intercropping of haricot bean:maize:sweat potato RCBD
Sole maize, maize+HB, maize+sweat potato, maize+lablab
5
Lalisa Dimtu
Farmers are looking for food and income from haricot bean
lack of improved seed supply
Farmer based cluster seed production
Farmer level cluster seed production of improved haricot bean, soya bean and ground nut varieties with cereal rotation
Volunteer farmers receive training and
support in seed production
0.25 hectares each
improved varieties with improved agronomic practices
60
Lalisa Dimtu
Farmers are looking for livestock feed, fuel and soil fertility improvement
Lack of planting materials
Introduction and supply of Pigeon pea and Leucenea seeds and seedlings
Introduction and demonstration of leucenea and pigeon pea hedgerow
Hedgerow planting + climbing bean
leucenea palida, perennial pigeon pea+2 annual climbing bean varieties
150
Chillanko+Kolu-Galan+Fromsa
Farmers are looking for food, income and soil fertility improvement
Lack of improved seeds, soil fertility degradation and disease infestation
Farmer based cluster high yielding, diseas tolerant legume seed production
Farmer level cluster seed productrion of improved faba bean and field pea varieties with cereal rotation
0.25 hectares each
improved variety+row planting+fertilizer+innoculum
20 for Fromsa 100
Chillanko+Kolu-Galan+Fromsa
Farmers are looking for livestock feed, fuel and soil fertility improvement
Lack of planting materials
Introduction and supply of Pigeon pea and Leucenea seeds and seedlings
Introduction and demonstration of leucenea palida and sesbania hedgerow
Hedgerow planting
Fromsa (25 farmers each for sesbania and leucenea), 25 farmers each for
leucenea at Kolu and Chillanko
100
Lalisa Dimtu, Fromsa, Kolu-Galan, Chillanko
Farmers are looking for knowledge of legume producrion
Lack of awareness Awareness creation through training
Trainings on improved food and forage legumes management and production system
Three times training: Before planting (planting), on field training (weeding, protection management) and at maturity on seed quality and post harvest handiling
400 farmers, 12 DA's, 3 experts, 3
cooperative organizers
418
Lalisa Dimtu, Fromsa, Kolu-Galan, Chillanko
Technologies need to be disseminated
Field day's and exchange visits 100 farmers at each
kebele 400
Location Rationale Constraint Intervention Activities Design Plot size Treatment Total # of farmers
Based on the plan,
60 farmers from Lalisa Dimtu attended legume production training 20 farmers from FromsaSeven Development Agents, supervisors and district experts
Farmers were clustered to produce seeds of legumes of their interestLD•30 farmers were provided HB (Nasir) each with 15 kg (0.25ha) and biofertilizer (BNF)•30 farmers were provided SB (Dhidhessa) each 15 kg (0.25ha) and BNF•5 farmers hosted maize legume intercropping experiment (one farmer hosting mother trial and the rest four baby trials)
FROMSA•10 farmers were provided Faba bean (Dosha) each with 40 kg (0.25ha) and biofertilizer (BNF)•10 farmers were provided Field Pea, (Bilallo and Burkitu five farmers each15 kg (0.25ha) and BNF
JELDU•Legume production training is to be held on 22-23 June 2015•But for both communities/implementation sites (Chilanko and Kolu-Galan),
Additionally, To farmers of both LC implementation sites (Diga and Jeldu)•30 kg of pigeon pea•12 kg of Leucenea•
SOME CHALLENGES WITH THE TOOL
1.Context Assessment Methodology (Land)
•Would have better if question “d” comes first•The questions do not emphasize or difficult to explain what proportion of their land farmers use to produce legume
(Material input delivery)For the question “How often do you visit the local agro-dealer” most farmers particularly the low income farmers responded once every year to buy fertilizers or seeds. But this response/answer was not included in the choices.
SOME CHALLENGES WITH THE TOOL
(Knowledge and Skills)
•The questions are only focusing to know what proportions of the PRA participants completed either primary or secondary education.
•But, we faced majority of the participants were illiterate/ never gone to schools
•No room to accommodate these groups in the proportion study
SOME CHALLENGES WITH THE TOOL
2. Community need assessment (Vision Mapping)
As a procedure the questions to map the visions are to be asked by gender•With this grouping, all typologies mix•Wealth status differs •Could not reach on agreement for most questions
Therefore the vision mapping questions best fit to ask individual farmers than in PRA group