Tamale ghana

9-12 January 2012, Modern City Lodge, Tamale, Ghana

GHANA PLANNING

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Assignment

Starting from the identified sites in your country:

• What ongoing research for development activities are already taking place or are planned, that fall within the scope of our draft logframe, that we could build upon, enhance, extend, or otherwise add value to?
• What is the key opportunity or enhancement that the project could support?
• Who, from this project, could be involved in such an activity?

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What on-going research for development activities are already happening in the Ghana Sites?

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

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]