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Potential irrigated crop value chain interventions for the LIVES project
1. Potential irrigated crop value chain
interventions for the LIVES project
Dirk Hoekstra
LIVES Commodity Value Chain Development Inception Workshop,
Addis Ababa, 21–24 January 2013
3. Producers/markets
• Producers
– Individually irrigated farms (self selected)
– Farmers in irrigation schemes (not preselected)
• Markets
– Individual HH
– Traders
– Large scale fruit and vegetable growers
– Supermarkets
– Juice houses
– Export ???
4. Potential irrigated crop
interventions
• On - farm
– Crop production, water use
• Input supply and services
– Crops
– Water
• Marketing/processing
5. Production interventions
• Increasing production, productivity and
income of irrigated crop commodities
– Distinguish between different farm types/systems
and production interventions
– Improved/marketed demanded varieties
– Improved crop and water husbandry practices,
including use of improved inputs/irrigation
equipment, planting schedules, post harvest,
quality
– Increased irrigated area and percentage high
value crops
6. Varieties
• Fruits
– Flesh/seed ratio - mango, avocado
– Taste - all fruits
– Productivity – all fruits
– Early maturing – all fruits
• Vegetables
– Onion vs shallot
– Productivity – all vegetables
• Fodder
– High value - protein rich
– Productivity
7. Improved crop/water husbandry
practices
• Crop rotation – including annual fodder
crops
• Pest control
• Staggered planting
• Irrigation equipment/methods
• Post harvest
15. Crop Input/service supply interventions
• Linkages between federal/regional agri-
business with village/district/zonal level agri-
businesses
– Irrigation equipment
– Agro-chemicals
• Linkages between federal/regional level
suppliers of improved varieties with District
level multipliers
– Certification of producers of seed/seedlings
16. Processing and marketing
interventions
• Improved marketing and processing of
crop products by district/zonal level
cooperatives and private entrepreneurs
– Introduction small scale processing and
storage equipment
– Bulking produce for marketing
– Formation of collective structures
marketing for producers (formal and
informal)
– Contract farming thru linkages
17. Processing and marketing interventions
• Linkages between federal/regional agri-
businesses with district level processors and
traders
– Fruit and vegetable whole sale
– Selected supermarkets
• Linkages between district/village level service
providers and federal level service institutions
– Crop prices (internet) – EXC and projects
– Information – Associations (horticulture) and projects
– Quality – Bureau of quality and standards/EIAR