Crop+Commodity


 * Crop Commodity Value Chain Development**

**Cereals** Targeting Production Intervention Input supply interventions
 * Diagnosis survey to identify the best fitting agro-ecology for specific crop commodity intervention.
 * Knowledge management interventions
 * Both female and male HH farmers
 * Find technologies/practices that reduce women farmers work load
 * Improved crop management practices( such as row planting, weeding, fertilization, pest management, water harvesting, post harvest handling)
 * Popularization of improved crop technologies.
 * Promote different types of cropping system
 * Technology selection and supply (seed, machinery, fertilized, pesticide etc)
 * Provide capacity building to input supply actors
 * Credit access /facilitation ( link to financial institution)
 * Market linkage
 * Input storage management

Processing and Marketing Lesson learned and Challenges Lesson **Coffee** Targeting Production Intervention Input supply interventions Processing and Marketing Lessons learned Targeting Production intervention Input supply intervention Marketing processing Lessons learned Challenges
 * Improved threshing
 * Cleaning and grading
 * Packaging and transporting
 * Market linkage
 * Flouring, branding( Marketing)
 * Processing in to different products( Injera, bread, liquor, Cake, Sphagetti etc)
 * Challenges
 * Shortage of improved seed and technologies
 * Poor market linkage
 * Poor specialization/ fragmented production system
 * Poor quality and quantity
 * Adverse Climate
 * Pest infestation
 * Farmers to farmers technology exchange is faster
 * Linkage of farmers and private sector
 * Women are key actors in production
 * Promotion of marketing extension system
 * Knowledge sharing events
 * Specialty variety areas identified by EIAR and land races released (Sidama, Harar etc)
 * High yielding varieties with quality management for other areas (SW)
 * See targeting for varieties'
 * Organic vs inorganic – cost/benefit consideration
 * Vegetative propagation by farm nurseries to be scaled out through training
 * Price incentive for quality coffee has not yet trickled down to farmers – beds, jute bag
 * Price signals confused because of local market demand (mixing) which is more than 50%
 * Farmers can do more than we thought
 * Price incentive for good practices have to be felt at the farm level
 * Pulse **
 * Smallholder farmer, seed growers and grain producers
 * Minimum required amount land
 * Possibility of land proximity to minimize mechanical mixing
 * Committed to apply / access additional
 * Accept and apply recommended management practices
 * Target household
 * Promotion of quality seeds of improved verities
 * Better management practices
 * Seed treatment
 * Seed cleaning storage
 * Packaging
 * Timely weeding
 * Foundation of seed supply
 * Fertilizers and other chemicals
 * credit
 * Capacity building(training, experience sharing
 * Promotion / materials and broaches, radio tv, seeds
 * Quality (seed quality analysis support)
 * Cleaning, grading , packaging
 * Grading
 * Storage, linking cooperative to farmers
 * Promotions, posters leaflet, seed fair
 * Field days
 * Capacity to produce quality seed
 * Strong partnership
 * Farmers demand for improved technology
 * Improved availability of quality seed
 * Pasts and disease

Targeting Production intervention Input supply intervention
 * Vegetables **
 * Income status, small holder farmers, gender wise criteria ,
 * Age group,
 * interest of participation
 * Infrastructure
 * Types of vegetables
 * Introduction of improved verities
 * Agronomy practice
 * Improved crop production practices
 * Facilitation of credit
 * Farmers based input suppliers
 * Quality controlled regulatory services

Marketing processing Lessons learned
 * Introducing market oriented technologies
 * Market promotional activities
 * Encouraging value addition production
 * Continuous market information
 * Sustainable market
 * Sustainable input supply system

Targeting Strength Weakness Production intervention Strength Weakness Input supply intervention strength weakness
 * Fruits **
 * Agro ecology based
 * Gender sensitive and empowerment
 * Multi stakeholder
 * Banana intervention in Metema is not environmentally friendly
 * Introduction of improved variety problem
 * solving variety skill training
 * Use of unclean planting material
 * determination maturity period
 * capacitating farmers as private nursery operators
 * increased income
 * reduce government cost
 * allow extension workers to focus on extension
 * credit provision enhance the development
 * fruit development is not integrated with bee/ honey

Marketing processing strength Lessons learned
 * increase barraging power
 * establishing of chella house
 * improved market linkage
 * challenges (poor development of infrastructure, volume of production,)
 * private sector operation
 * nursery stab
 * farmers engagement is very important
 * sustainability
 * fast technology scaling up