Irrigated fruits & vegetables value chain for
Sidama and Gamo Gofa Zone
Opportunities, constraints and intervention options
Presented to launching workshop
Outline
– Targeting processes
– What are opportunities?
– Irrigated fruits & Vegetables value chain
constraints & intervention options
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Production
Irrigation practice
Inputs/ services
Processing and marketing
Linkages
– Gender interventions
– Environment intervention
Targeting
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Zones
Districts
PAs
Households
Base line data
– To set up bench mark
Commodities approved for two zones
Zones
Districts
Selected commodities
Dairy Beef
Sidama
G.Gofa
Small
Rumi.
Poultry
Honey
Irrig. Fruits
& veget.
Arbegona
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Bansa
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Bona Zuria
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Bonke
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A/minch zuria
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Mirab Abaya
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Opportunities
• Market/internal, external
• Massive push from government side
– Organizational
– Institutional
– Capacity building
– Access to credit/OMF, SMF
• Increased awareness of farmers
• Increased awareness of private sectors
Commodities value chain and intervention areas
1. Fruits and vegetables production status
– Major fruits:- Banana, mango, avocado, apple ,papaya
– Major vegetables:-Tomato, pepper, onion, garlic, cabbage, potato
– Intensively produced as cash crop and/or for hh consumption
Major limitations
– Knowledge /skill in market focused improved agronomic practices
– Productivity/unit area
– Marketable varieties and other planting materials
– Diseases and pests
Intervention options
– Capacity building
– Introduction of improved seeds and planting materials from
within and abroad
– Integrated/organic disease and pest control
Irrigation practices
– Schemes in zones: Sidama 13, Gamo Gofa 40
– In target districts: Sidama 3, Gamo Gofa 9
– Numerous artificial dams, hand dug wells, etc
• Water lifting mechanisms in practice
– Motorized pumps (2hp-4hp), Rope and
washer, Tridle, manual using bucket
• Limitations
– Skill and knowledge
– Underutilization of schemes/pumps
– Malfunctioning of schemes
– irrigation scheme management
Irrigation cont….
• Intervention options
– Capacity building
– Assessing current utilization status
– Strengthening and/or initiating water users
association
– Training WUA leaders in leadership skill
Inputs and services supply system
• Inputs
– Seeds, seedlings, agrochemicals, pumps,
sprayers
– Supplied by both public and private traders
– Intensively used by farmers
• Limitations
– Timely availability and sustainability of supply
– Quality
– Trustworthiness
– Maintenance and services
Intervention options
• Engaging farmer in input supply service/
for seeds, seedlings
• Strengthening private suppliers/ for
pumps, sprayers, agrochemicals
• Strengthening public regulatory unit with
manpower and facilities
• Strengthening private sector/youth groups
in maintenance and service of
Processing and marketing
• Constraints
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Focused on local market
Storing and transporting
Value addition
Bargaining power
• Intervention options
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Promote collective marketing
Developing certifying capacity
Promoting zone specific brand marketing
better transporting and storing facilities to reduce
losses
– Review some NGOs processing experience (ECOPIA,
etc) and scaling out if it sounds feasible
Linkages
Constraints
• Less linkage among producers, input suppliers, service
providers and traders at different locations
Intervention options
• Facilitate formation of platform for dominant actors
• Initiating linkage between farmers and marketing groups
such as wholesealers and retailers at ifferent level
• Initiate linkage with private and public sectors seedling
producers with private/public service providers for
provision of planting materials, inspection and
certification , technical support
Gender intervention
• Prioritizing women for services ( capacity
building, access to credit, etc)
• Introducing HH work loading reducing
technologies
• Engaging women business ( seedling
production, agrochemicals trading, small
scale processing, etc)
Environment
• Reviewing impact of each intervention on
environment (positive/negative)
– Awareness on negative impact of
agrochemicals/proper handling
– Salinity due to excessive irrigation
– Depletion of underground water if any
– Awareness creation on malaria and other
vector disease spread