| Components |
Activities |
Main
Achievements |
Difficulties
faced |
Unexpected
results |
1. Building support and partner establishment
|
1. Evaluation of IADO activities; problem identification (1997, IADO office)
2. IADO, researchers and representatives from farmers: meetings for common
understanding (1998, ARI Uyole)
3. Awareness creation meetings at each village, involving village government,
farmers, IADO and agricultural extension officers and researchers (1998-9,
9 villages) |
Stakeholdes responded positively
Partnership established with Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) established.
MoU between IADO and ARI Uyole under the FARMESA project |
Postponement of some meetings due to the absence of some people
Who to do what and who to fund wa snot always clear
|
Interaction of TACRI-Lyamungo in 1999 |
|
2. Field trials |
1. Identification of field trials
2. Stting criteria for identying fields for trials (close to infested fields,
farmer driven, strategic area is easily accessible by the majority, a farmer
that is able to explain the process)
3. Land preparation, done as with old coffee tilling, manuring, spacing
4. Picking seedlings from TACRI: 9 varieties picked, @ 104 seedlings
5. Planting of varieties, varieties randomly planted with old coffee
6. Routine coffee management |
Fields were selected, farmers volunteered to give the fields free of charge
|
Many farmers wanted trials to be on their fields which necessitated voting
to identify the only needed fields per village |
Demand from unintended wards and even district as farmers do interact and
share coffee issues. |
| 3. Establishing criteria for
M&E |
1. Setting criteria for M&E:
height of plant, yields per plant/tree, physical appearance, resistance
to CBD/CLR, resistance to insects (all set by the team farmers inclusive)
2. Monitoring of the exercise was done by researchers, IADO and farmers.
Monitoring every 3 months for 4 years
3. Identification of resistant varieties
4. Cup tasting of the best identified varieties |
Four varieties identified for
multiplication
The taste of the new varieties was better than that of the old coffee |
Isolation of samples in harvesting
Processing of samples separately while most farmers were not used to such
exercise
Poor record keeping of farmers |
Some IADO staff concetrated more
on coffee, hence some other organisation activities were not done or lately
done |
| 4. Training of cloning and multiplication
of seedlings |
1. Identification of IADO extension
officers for training on coffee cloning. Three members of staff identified
and trained by TACRI Lymungo for two weeks
2. Identification of a field for multiplication
3. Multiplication of seedling from the four selected varieties
|
Parental stock developed with
812 trees
Offer of 700 seedlings from TACRI by ED TACRI Lymungo due to high achievement
The TACRI director also offered a cost sharing training for two IADO extension
officers to strengthen the skills and knowledge on coffee cloning
|
Didn't have enough cuttings
High level of commitment needed with careful application of the knowledge
and skills |
The offer of 700 seedlings from
TACRI |
| 5. Distribution of coffee seedlings |
1. Awareness creation to inform
the community of the presence of CBD/CLR resistant varieties
FFSchools
2. Identification of farmer groups and training them on seed multiplication
(using FFS, visits to TACRI, workshops)
3. Selling of coffee seedlings to farmers individually, @ TZSh 100/seedling |
916 seedlings sold to individual
farmers
Four farmer groups developed but are yet to get seedlings for multiplication |
Demand is higher than supply |
The need for CBD/CLR resistant
varieties for the southern Tanzania highlands and not for Isangati only |