The World Vegetable Center AVRDC 1 Annual Workshop ********** 2014/2015 Achievements of AVRDC Sikasso, 26 February 2015 Sustainable Intensification of Key Farming Systems in the Sudano-Sahelian Zone of West Africa BY: Dr Caroline Sobgui Dr Albert Rouamba

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC 2 Outline 1.Short presentation of AVRDC intervention in 2014/ Methodology for trials implementation in 2014/ Achievements: Improving farm and field productivity and profitability Review and document nutrition activities in Mali

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC Project Component for AVRDC, 2014/ AVRDC intervenes in 2 Work packages: WP5 and WP10 in Mali WP 4 in Ghana WP5: Activity 2: Determine farmer practices for cereal/legumes – Vegetables based systems, test integrated innovations and assess productivity and profitability Sub activity 2.1: Assess productivity and profitability of integrated innovations for cereal/legume – Vegetables cropping systems and identify opportunities for scaling Sub activity 2.2: Test and disseminate promising technologies to intensify vegetable mono cropping in rainy and off-season

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC Project Component for AVRDC (Cont’d) 4 WP10: Activity 6: Review and document nutrition activities in Mali Sub activity 6.1: Review and confirm nutrrition modules with input from nutritionists Sub activity 6.3: Joint Ghana-Mali nutrition planning to develop 2015 work plans WP 4: Activity 1 to 4: In Ghana

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC Implementation of the trials in 2014/2015 Period: 1 August 2011 ‐ 31 July 2014 in 2 phases Phase 1: 1 August 2011 – 31 July 2013 Phase 2: 1 August 2013 – 31 July 2014 Bougouni & Sikasso In each action village: planning meeting Okra (O)Tomato (T) Pepper (P) Roselle (R) Each vegetable is associated either Maize or Groudnut

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC 6 INTERCROPPING TRIALS: 100 Groudnut + Roselle: Fleur 11 + Samandah & L28 100% (G) 100% (R) 50% (G) + 50% (R) 75% (G) + 25% (R) 25% (G) + 75% (R)

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC 7 INTER CROPPING TRIALS Maize + tomato: Sotubaka + IXCRIXINA & AVTO % Maize (M) 100% (T) 50% (M) + 50% (T) 75% (M) + 25% (T) 25% (M) + 75% (T) Maize + pepper: 100% Maize (M) 100% (P) 50% (M) + 50% (P) 75% (M) + 25% (P) 25% (M) + 75% (P) : Sotubaka + Nisondia & Bafirama

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC 8 INTER CROPPING TRIALS Maize + Okra: Sotubaka + Batoumabè & Konni 100% Maize (M) 100% (O) 50% (M) + 50% (O) 75% (M) + 25% (O) 25% (M) + 75% (O)

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC 9 MONO CROPPING TRIALS: 100 Tomato: ICRIXINA + AVTO local Pepper: Nisomdia + Bafarima + local Okra: Batoumbè + Konni + local Roselle: Samandah + L28 + Local Each farmer= replication and has 3 plots and 2 sub plots per plot including farmer practice (P) and recommended practice (A)

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC Data collection Sowing and transplanting: June to July 2014 Data recording: June to December What has been collected?: - Yield per plot and calculated per Kg/ha - Gross market values of the tested vegetable, cereal and legume crops Data were recorded and analyzed 10

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC Achievements 11 State of trials in Bougouni and Koutiala, 2014/2015

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC Achievements 12 Prices of products in FCFA Inter cropping G + R Bougouni

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC Achievements 13 Cumulative yields (kg/ha) Cumulative Gross market values (FCFA)

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC Achievements 14 Inter cropping M + T Bougouni

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC Achievements 15 Cumulative Gross market values (FCFA) Cumulative yields (kg/ha)

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC Achievements 16 Bougouni Inter cropping M + P

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC Achievements 17 Cumulative yields (kg/ha) Cumulative Gross market values (FCFA)

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC Achievements 18 Bougouni Inter cropping M + O

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC Achievements 19 Cumulative yields (kg/ha) Cumulative Gross market values (FCFA)

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC Achievements: 20 Koutiala Okra Tomato

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC Achievements 21 Koutiala Roselle

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC Conclusion for the trials 22 I)The pure culture is the best in terms of gross market values for vegetables, II)For intercropping, we need a second year of trials to confirm the trend: Intercropping 25% of cereal/legumes associated with 75% of Vegetables seems to give the best gross market values, III)For mono cropping, the AVRDC developed varieties are the most productives comparatively to all the checks, IV)The superiority of practices (A or P) is not obvious and further trials will allow to know more.

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC Achievements: Nutrition 23 Sub-activity 6.1: Review and confirm nutrition training modules with input from nutritionists Results:  Training Modules revised and compiled as a training manual for extension workers (the draft document is under review) Topics covered  Food groups  Malnutrition  Optimal feeding practices for children and pregnant and lactating women  Harvest and post-harvest conservation and transformation  Food Hygiene  How to improve food and nutrition security.

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC Achievements: Nutrition 24 Sub activity 6.3: Joint Ghana-Mali nutrition planning to develop 2015 work plans Main results:  Meeting organized in Ouagadougou-Burkina Faso (14-16 January 2015)  Work plan for the coming years available

The World Vegetable Center AVRDC 25 Thank you