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Innovative Partnership Approach to Chickpea seed production and Technology Dissemination: Lessons from Ethiopia

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/10633/
 
Title Innovative Partnership Approach to Chickpea seed
production and Technology Dissemination: Lessons from
Ethiopia
 
Creator Chichaybelu, M
Geleta, T
Girma, N
Fikre, A
Eshete, M
Ojiewo, C O
 
Subject Innovation
Chickpea
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Horn of Africa
Ethiopia
Seed Systems
 
Description Innovative partnership in chickpea seed production and technology dissemination was assessed in increasing chickpea productivity through facilitated access to quality seed. The study was designed to evaluate the benefits gained from partnership implemented for the last 10 years in chickpea technology by seed system of crop production. Farmers' participatory variety selection (FPVS)' has been implemented as epicenter of the new innovation. The varieties selected by the farmers were ultimately demonstrated and visited by large number of farmers and other stakeholders. This was complemented with the establishment and technical backstopping of farmers' seed producer associations to produce and market quality seed to fill the gap by the formal sector. Intervention with chickpea technologies were initiated right after training partners in chickpea seed and grain vale chain. From 2008 to 2015, over 350 FPVS trials were conducted concurrently with demonstrations. The farmers' seed producer associations cover the lion's share of the seed supply and became an innovative approach that enhanced the chickpea seed system. The production of certified and quality declared seed increased from 632.7t in 2008 to 3290 tons in 2014. The drastic increase in productivity and production of chickpea during the intervention period were largely attributed to the interventions made. The national chickpea productivity has doubled in a decade's time (2006-2015) and attained peak of 1.9ton ha-1 in 2014. Similarly production showed drastic increase during the intervention period where the production in 2015 was 124% more compared to the production in 2006. Lessons were driven from the approach that many development parties and the government policy recognized the approach as key player for enhancing the chickpea sector.
 
Publisher Crop Science Society of Ethiopia
 
Date 2018
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10633/1/01%20Mekasha%20Chechaibelu.pdf
Chichaybelu, M and Geleta, T and Girma, N and Fikre, A and Eshete, M and Ojiewo, C O (2018) Innovative Partnership Approach to Chickpea seed production and Technology Dissemination: Lessons from Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Crop Science, 6 (2). pp. 1-18. ISSN 2072-8506