Scaling Chickpea Technologies for Increased Production and
Productivity of Smallholder Farmers in Major Chickpea Producing
Areas of Ethiopia
Partnership Project
AGRA-SSTP, ILRI-N2Africa and MBI
Tamiru Amanu,
Business Development Officer
ILRI-N2Africa
Project Launch and Planning Workshop
15 April, 2015
ILRI Campus, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Outline of the presentation
• Background and introduction
• Project description
• Project Partners and Responsibilities
• Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
• Dissemination strategy
Introduction: Chickpea Production Potentials and Challenges in
Ethiopia
• Chickpea is (the third) most widely cultivated food grain legume
• A multi-functional crop that fits well in rotation with cereals because of
its ability to fix nitrogen
• Dominantly produced in the crop-livestock based farming systems of
the central, north and northwest highlands of Ethiopia with a potential
breakthrough to cereal belt of Bale
• The total area and production under chickpea is estimated to reach
233,440 ha and 312,080 tons, respectively (CSA, 2008/2009)
• Provide an important source of food and nutritional security for the
rural poor
Introduction: Chickpea Production Potentials and Challenges in
Ethiopia
Challenges:
• Very low national average grain yield (about 1.34 tons/ha (CSA,
2008/2009)) due to
Low genetic potential of farmers' varieties,
Biotic and abiotic factors
Insufficient application of P fertilizer and no use of rhizobium
inoculants by small holder farmers,
Limited awareness of the potential benefits of seed inoculation
and lack of access to inoculants, among others
• Weak links, poor chain coordination and hence poor collaboration
between the chain actors are usually
• Poorly developed input supply chain (seed system, inoculants and
others)
Opportunities:
• Considerable research and development efforts,
• Growing market potential (local, international)
Project Description
Project Title
• Scaling Chickpea Technologies for Increased Production and Productivity of Smallholder
Farmers in Major Chickpea Producing Areas of Ethiopia
Charitable purpose
• To improve BNF for enhanced soil fertility and productivity of chickpea among SHFs and
• Contribute to farm households’ food security and income through awareness creation and access
to inoculants, blended fertilizer and improved chickpea seeds
Project target areas and beneficiaries
• Major chickpea producing districts of Oromia (Ada’a, Gimbichu & Ginnir), Amhara (Gondar
Zuria, Dembia & Enemay) and SNNPR (Damot Gale) regions
• A minimum of 45,000 SHFs per season are expected to be exposed to the project
interventions with due consideration to gender
Project total budget: $ 393,059.03
AGRA-SSTP grant: $ 299,845.80
Project duration: Feb 1, 2015-March 31, 2017
Project Description: Goal, objectives and activities
Goal
The
Project is
structure
d under
four
strategic
objective
s
Activities
• Develop production, distribution and marketing strategies for
dissemination of improved chickpea technologies for a
minimum of 90,000 packets of inoculants, 2,700 tons of
improved chickpea seeds and 562.5 tons of NPS and reach
more than 90,000 chickpea producing SHFs
• Technology promotion and dissemination (establishing
demonstrations, organizing field days,..)
• Supporting input production & distribution and grain market
access
• Capacity building and
• Partnership development
• A range of activities have been proposed and will carried out so as
to achieve the project objectives along chickpea value chain
Project Results Framework
Project partners and responsibilities
The project is designed to establish feasible
input supply chains and grain market access
involving a consortium of Public, Private and
Development partners
ILRI-N2Africa:
Technical
backstopping,
facilitation and
coordination of
the consortium &
engagement in
PPP, and M&E.
SSTP-AGRA:
Grant
provision,
overseeing
financial
issues, M&E
MoA, NSTC,
ATA:
Support
dissemination
campaigns,
field activity
follow up,
organize field
days (MoA),
inoculant quality
(NSTC, HARC),
and support
fertilizers
blending for
legumes (ATA)
MBI:
Inoculant
production
and supply,
technical
backstopping,
M&E, finance
issues, subgranting.
NARS:
Technical
backstopping,
basic seeds,
data
collection and
feedback
collection
Balegreen &
Tsehay Union,
FCUs:
Seed
multiplication and
distribution
(Balegreen,
Tsehay), channels
for input
distribution and
product
pooling/bulking
(Unions), support
agribusiness and
market link
(SNV/AgriteraC4C)
Interrelationship of project partners and flow of inputs & grains
Monitoring
and Evaluation
(M&E)
Project
Indicators
Indicator Definition
Baseline
Targets
logic/Result
Target
Target
Target
Project Target
chain
Yr. 1
Yr. 2
Yr. 3
Goal: Develop production, distribution and marketing strategies for dissemination of improved chickpea technologies for a minimum of 90,000
packets of rhizobium inoculants, 2,700 tons of improved chickpea seeds and 562.5 tons of NPS and reach more than 90,000 chickpea producing
smallholder farmers in Ethiopia.
Outcome
Improved
access of
inoculants
and NPS
fertilizer
Quantity (ton) of inoculant
produced and distributed
as a result of the project
intervention.
The amount of inoculant (ton)
produced at MBI production unit,
and distributed to smallholder
farmers.
0
5
6.25
0
11.25
Quantity (ton) of NPS
fertilizer produced and
distributed as a result of
the project intervention.
The amount of NPS fertilizer (ton)
blended at blending companies and
distributed to smallholder farmers
0
250
312.5
0
562.5
Number of partnership
agreements established
between Balegreen Plc
and the FPCUs
Number of partnership
agreement established
between MBI, Balegreen
and FPCUs
Number of seed supply
and grain sourcing
partnership agreement
established with Tsehay
Union
Partnership agreements signed
between Balegreen Plc and the
FPCUs in Oromiya and SNNPR for
seed distribution
Partnership agreements MBI
signed with Balegreen and FPCUs
in the project target areas for
inoculant distribution
Partnership agreements signed with
Tsehay Union for seed distribution
and grain marketing in the Northern
cluster
0
3
0
0
3
0
6
0
0
6
0
1
0
0
1
Outputs
Improved
partnership
agreements
to seed
distribution
and grain
marketing
• The IPTT and data collection tools will be used to track the overall
performance of the project
Dissemination Strategy
• Poor coordination among VC actors in input supply chain, technology
dissemination, capacity development and marketing is a cause to, among
others, low impact of agricultural technologies on SHFs’ livelihoods
• The MoA is given the responsibility to disseminate and scale up technologies
in Ethiopia
• This establishment with further capacity building and better partnership is
targeted as an strategy
• Different dissemination mechanisms including demonstrations, field days,
cross visits, trainings, media broadcasts, and development of dissemination
materials will be used reach a minimum of 90,000 SHFs with due
consideration to gender
• FCUs will be further capacitated to effectively serve the input distribution and
product delivery roles
 Known by farmers to be points of accessing agricultural inputs and grain
delivery
 Development actors working with FPCUs
 Initiation of local agro-dealers, as alternative input distribution strategies
Thank you!