AGRIBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

SUSTIANABLE MANAGEMENT OF LAND AND ENVIRONMENT

 

• Enhanced Land and Environment Management
• Climate change awareness and sensitization

Table 4.1:  Climate change awareness/sensitization Training

Activities	Number of Trainings	Beneficiaries		Total
		Male	Female
*Catchment areas protection schemes (e.g. reclamation of arable land, re-afforestation, etc.)	0	0	0	0
Bush fire mitigation awareness/trainings	2	33	12	45
Overgrazing awareness and training sessions	1	6	0	6
Cropping management (e.g. Crop rotation, cover cropping etc.)	8	262	67	329
Water use management (e.g. bunding in rice fields, Drainage construction in flooded fields, Irrigation etc.)	2	37	9	46
Perennial fruits and fodder plantation against soil erosion	0	0	0	0
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)	8	262	67	329
Others …
TOTAL	21	600	155	755

Source: DAD, 2023

Analysis

In general, trainings were steered to alert farmers within various Operational Areas especially on cropping management and IPM as well as GAPs. Kraal owners were also invited at the Office and were also sensitized on Overgrazing.

 

 

 

• Conservation Agriculture (CA)

Table 4.2 Crops under conservation Agriculture 

Crops	Total Cropped Area  (Ha)	Area under conservation Agriculture  (Ha)	% under conservation Agriculture	Yield (mt/ha)
				Conservation	Non-conservation

Source: DAD – field data collection, 2023

Analysis

No conservation agriculture demonstration has been established.

 

• Conservation Agriculture Demonstrations

Table 4.3.2 indicate the level of adoption

Table 4.3.1 Conservation Agriculture demonstration

Conservation System	Target Number of Demonstrations	Actual Number of demonstrations	Beneficiaries
			Total	Male	Female

NB: Examples of conservation systems are crop rotation, mulching, zero tillage, cover cropping, intercropping etc.

No conservation agriculture demonstration has been established for the quarter under review.

 

 

• Adoption of Conservation farming Systems

 

Table 4.3 Conservation Systems Adopted

Systems	Types of Crops	Beneficiaries		Total	Number Adopted		Total	Percentage Adoption
		Male	Female		Male	Female
Crop rotation	Cowpea &Maize	22	8	30	13	4	17	56.7
Mulching	Maize	46	19	65	32	11	43	66.2
Zero tillage	Maize	58	13	71	27	6	33	46.5
	Cassava	20	3	23	9	0	9	39.1
Cover cropping	Cucumber  Cowpea	15	4	19	5	1	6	31.6
Intercropping	Maize & Cassava	53	23	76	34	13	47	61.8
	Plantain & Cocoyam	15	2	17	7	0	7	41.2
Others	–

Source: DDA, (2023)

Analysis

Adoption of conservative agriculture practices is gradually rising as farmers have noticed the positive results yield in their crops.  

 

 

Management visits conservative agriculture farms

 

 

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• Environmental Management

 

Table 4.4: Awareness/Sensitization on Environmental Management

Item	Target Participants	Number of trainings	Beneficiaries		Total
			Male	Female
Illegal Mining
Water Pollution
Stone & Sand Winning
Total

Source: DDA, 2023

Analysis

No such sensitizations were made during the reporting quarter.

CHAPTER FIVE: CHALLENGES AND RECOMMENDATIONS

No	Challenges	Recommendation
1	Delay of PFJ inputs	Agric. Policy Makers should speed up decisions for the input releases
2	Delay of funds from the Assembly	The MMDAs should be critically monitored for earlier release of the MAG funds
3	Poor Agricultural road network	Government must upgrade Agricultural road networks in the Municipal.
4	Insufficient Veterinary Technical Officers (VTOs)	More VTOs should be posted to the Municipal
5	Insufficient of required AEAs	More AEAs should be posted to the Municipal
6	Inadequate GoG budgetary allocation	Government must endeavor to release enough GoG budgetary allocations