Ghana: 12 February, 3:00 to 4:30 pm
What are on-going research for development activities are already
AVCMP and RSSP (AGRA- DANIDA – AFD), CORAF
-Influence of variety and soil fertility management on productivity and profitability
-Cropping systems research on rice – soybean (rotation, strip cropping, inoculation) on
resource use efficiency
-Influence of new formulation (fertilizers) on productivity of rice based cropping systems
-Participatory evaluation of maize, sorghum, cowpea and rice varieties
-ICRISAT:
-Sorghum variety testing
N2 Africa
-Putting nitrogen fixation work for small holder farmers in legume – cereal based cropping
systems
AGRA – SHP
Maize based cropping system
-IWMI/ ARI / WRI
-Assessing the potential of dry season farming and supplementary irrigation on rice and
vegetable production
Rainwater and soil conservation management specifically identifying and monitoring
CIDA – AFRICARICE – FRI - SARI
Survey data on consumer preferences for rice
-Survey qualitative and quantitative post harvest losses of rice
-Evaluation of mini-combine harvester
-Introduce and test improved parboiling equipment
-IFDC/AGRA/DANIDA
-Farmer to market access (reduce transaction cost etc..)
-Training and promoting aggregation of commodities
-Facilitation of market access
-On-going vegetable testing activities (fertilizer management – tomato and pepper)
SARI
-Soybean – maize rotation for striga management
-Evaluation of sorghum and soybean varieties for drought tolerance
- Animal feeding strategies (e.g. pigeon pea, maize etc..) as livestock feed
-SANREM CRSP
- Evaluation of integrated crop, soil and water management practices to enhance
productivity of cereal-legume cropping systems. natural resource management
-- Improved water harvesting, erosion and soil fertility techniques
-Influence conservation agricultural practices (e.g. crop residue, tillage and nutrient
practices) on cereal – legume based systems
INTSORMIL CRSP
- Effects of tillage, nitrogen and cropping systems effect on sorghum yield, water and
nutrient use
- Evaluation of response of genotypes to tillage and nitrogen
-Testing of Integrated nutrient management practices
PEANUT - CRSP
-Management of weeds, leafspot (genotypes etc..)
-Create awareness about aflatoxin problem
-Varietal improvement
IPM CRSP
- Testing of IPM techniques
IFDC-SARI
-Influence of contour bunds on water conservation on enhanced maize productivity
IITA - Drought Tolerance Maize for Africa
-Evaluating drought and striga tolerant and nitrogen use efficient maize varieties
-Purdue University
-cowpea storage
CORAF
-Improving seed systems
AVRDC
Vegetable production systems enhancement
Ghana Universities
KNUST
UDS
What is the key opportunity or enhancement that the project could support
SANREM CRSP
- up scaling selected integrated soil, water and crop management practices for
sustainable improvement of cereal – legume based cropping systems
-up scaling of water, tillage and residue management systems in cereal – legume
cropping system.
-INTSORMIL CRSP
- Striga management in cereal – legume systems
- Up-scaling improved integrated fertilizer management
- Up-scaling of integrated water management practices
-Evaluation of genotypes for drought tolerance and nitrogen response
Peanut - CRSP
Training on aflatoxin and testing kits
N2 AFRICA
-Increase legume productivity
- Better agronomy of legume systems
-SARI
-Institutional and human capacity; and analyses for plant and soil analysis capacity
AVCMP and RSSP (AGRA- DANIDA – AFD), CORAF
-Up-scaling existing technologies of rice based cropping systems
-Introduction of vegetable in cereal – legume based production systems
-IWMI/ ARI / WRI
-Irrigation implements for small holder farmers
-Fostering rainwater management integration
-Processing and market linkages of soybeans
-Farm equipment for small holding farmers
Who, from this project, could be involved in such an activity
Partner were listed in the activity 1
Participants:
S.K Nutsugah (SARI): e-mail: sknutsugah@hotmail.com
Robert Abadioo (IITA): e-mail: abaidoorc@yahoo.com
Mashark Abdulai (SARI): e-mail: msabdula@yahoo.com
Oluponi Ajayi (IITA): e-mail: o.j.ajayi@cgiar.com
Alpha Kamara (IITA): e-mail: a.kamara@cgiar.org
Wilson Dogbe (SARI): e-mail: wilsondogbe@yahoo.com
Bougouna Sogoba (AMEDD, Mali): bougouna.sogoba@ameddmali.org
Mobiom-Bougouni (Mali): e-mail: diakitemobiom@yahoo.fr
Nicholas Denwar (SARI): e-mail: nicholasdenwar@yahoo.com
James Kombiok (SARI): e-mail: kombiokjm@yahoo.com
Jesse Naab (SARI): e-mail: jbnaab@africaonline.com.gh
Belay Mengistu (USAID, Ghana): e-mail: bmengistu@usaid.gov
Karelyn Cruz (USAID, USA): e-mail: kcruz@usaid.gov or karelyn37@gmail.com
Augustine Ayantunde (ILRI): e-mail: a.ayantunde@cgiar.org
Nelson Agbo (KNUS): e-mail: nelagbo@yahoo.co.uk
Abdou Tenkouano (AVRDC): e-mail: abdou.tenkouano@worldveg.org
Fred Kizito (IWMI): e-mail: f.kizito@cgiar.org
Vara Prasad (KSU, USA; SANREM/INTSORMIL): e-mail: vara@ksu.edu