Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia in Bangladesh

(‘CSISA-BD‘)A focus on Alignment opportunities

between AAS and CSISA-BD

An Overview of the Key Interventions and Activities of WorldFish under CSISA-BD

RRF, Jessore6 - 7 April 2013

Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA)

in Bangladesh

Overview to CSISA

CSISA-BD Goal: Increased household income, food security, and livelihoods in impoverished and agriculturally dependent regions of Bangladesh

We work to - i.Maximizing farming “Income and Productivity” through improved Technologies and Varieties in Agro–Aqua systems

ii. Improved nutrition, dietary diversity, additional income and women empowerment

What is Hub?A geographic region - having fairly similar biophysical characteristics, production systems, constrains and potential intervention points.

Specific Project Objectives

Objective 1

Dissemination and adoption of improved varieties, production technologies, and management practices for cereal and fish systems in

order to improve productivity, income, and resilience to risk.Objective 2

Adaptive research trials to test, validate, and refine newly developed agronomic practices for cereals and aquaculture technologies, varieties

Objective 3 Capacity building for researchers, extension workers, and service providers from the public, private, and NGO sectors to enable the rapid dissemination and adoption of improved technologies and management approaches.

Specific Project Objectives

Objective 4Socioeconomic and farming systems analysis for technology targeting, deployment, and improvement of market linkages and livelihood systems.

Objective 5 Development of innovative information delivery mechanisms, including robust decision support tools that integrate producer information, market prices, weather, and risk in formats that are simple to use and accessible to all agricultural stakeholders.

• Dissemination and Adoption of high-yielding and stress-tolerant varieties and improved technologies

• Test / validate / refine of sustainable management practices & improved varieties and technologies

• Strategic partnerships (public + private sectors) to increase the scale and longevity of interventions

• Strengthen market linkages and business development – improved technologies alone are not sufficient

• Capacity building

Key CSISA-BD Activities

Vision of Success

By end of 5 years CSISA-BD will reach:By end of 5 years CSISA-BD will reach:– 60,000 direct clients with net annual income 60,000 direct clients with net annual income

increase $ 350increase $ 350– 300,000 indirect clients will participate through 300,000 indirect clients will participate through

training, participatory adoption and adaptive training, participatory adoption and adaptive trials, linkage events, exchange visits, stakeholder trials, linkage events, exchange visits, stakeholder consultations…consultations…

– Around 1 million rural hhs will be benefited Around 1 million rural hhs will be benefited through linkages and synergiesthrough linkages and synergies

a. Pond system: Focus on commercial production

b. Gher system: Focus on “Gher” based improved aquaculture – agriculture farming system (Alternate and Concurrent)

c. Household based system: Focus on

homestead based small and seasonal pond and land area

WorldFish intervention in systems

Increase efficiency and promotion of improved technologies and varieties – as appropriate

Reduced risk, short-duration, high productivity and income, market oriented, Gender and Nutrition focused

Partnership with public – private sectors, institutes

Intervention principle

Private SectorSeed/Feed/Traders

CSISA-BDCSISA-BD

Direct Client

Indirect Client

GO Agencies(BFRI / DOF / BARC) NGO / Association

Private SectorSeed/Feed/Traders

Direct ClientDirect Client

Indirect ClientIndirect Client

Dissemination / Scale-out Process

Formed “Direct Client Group” on specific technologies

“Training” “Exchange Visit” “Regular Coaching” “Refresher training”

Participatory Adoption Trials (PAT)

“Farming community and market actors follow progress & final result enhance adoption

and scale-out”

Linkage Events and Stakeholder consultation

workshop

Dissemination Strategies Mass media, Printed

materials, capacity building of service

providers

Dissemination and Adoption Activities

Fine Tuning of Potential Technologies/Varieties

Market price survey: weekly price data collection from 40 rural and urban wholesale and retail markets in all 6 CSISA hubs.

Production economics of key aquaculture production systems in hubs provide an accurate benchmark of the productivity and margins for aquaculture systems

Survey of households on employment generation associated with 06 key aquaculture systems promoted by CSISA-BD to understand economic and employment multipliers and capacity to alleviate poverty

Socio – Economic Studies

How long we assist the trained group/village- Intensively one year by training, PAT, ART, Coaching , Linkage Events During 2nd year Refreshers, Sharing Trails results by Linkage Events

Who are our partners and their role:

NGOs - Select project clients, organize events, provide credit; BRAC, TMSS, JCF, SSS, BS, SDC, BDS, Renaissance.

Private sectors – Value chain actors linkages for information, inputs, market

Public - DoF, BFRI, BARI, BARC, Universities

International: AVRDC, AIT, CIFA

CSISA-WF Activity Strategy and Partners

CSISA-WF system productivity

Increased production of Aquaculture- Agriculture in Gher SystemIncreased production of Aquaculture- Agriculture in Gher System Boro rice followed by Prawn/Tilapia/Carp fish-

intensifying from one crop to two crops of fish & Horticulture on Dyke

Shrimp followed by T-Aman

Freshwater Prawn –Galda Dyke cropping in Gher system

Increased production of Pond Aquaculture & Horticulture on DykeIncreased production of Pond Aquaculture & Horticulture on Dyke Improved farming of Tilapia & Horticulture on Dyke. Improved Carp-Shing poly culture & Horticulture on

Dyke Increased efficiency of high density commercial

aquaculture

Carp polyculture Linkage Event

CSISA-WF System Productivity

Increased production of fish through cage aquacultureIncreased production of fish through cage aquaculture

Improved food fish production of suitable species (Tilapia) in Nylon net cages setting in Canal/River

Feeding in cageCage preparation

CSISA-WF System Productivity

Increased productivity of homestead ponds & lands for nutrient-rich fish Increased productivity of homestead ponds & lands for nutrient-rich fish and vegetables for family consumption and additional incomeand vegetables for family consumption and additional income

- Household based pond aquaculture (polyculture of carps / tilapia with micronutrient rich small fish “Mola”) and vegetables (including Vit-A rich orange fleshed sweet potato) farming by involving women members of the family.

Mola collection for HH aquaculture Farmers Training

CSISA-WF System Productivity

Farming Household Male & Female (%) Direct Client During Year 1 & 2

Cost -Benefit Analysis Technologies wise (Based on Demo Record Book-2011)Endline Baseline

TechnologiesProd

MT/HaProd

MT/Ha

Production Cost/ha

(Tk)

Return/Ha (Tk)

Gross Margin/Ha (Tk)

BCR

Household based pond aquaculture (n=2)

4.25 1.53 227899 441718 213820 1.94

Improved carp polyculture in pond and horticulture on dyke (n=31)

4.28 1.60 216253 414217 197964 1.92

Improved carp-shing polyculture in Pond and horticulture on dyke (n=6)

7.17 2.55 432249 850639 418390 1.97

Improved farming of fresh water prawn and carps in gher and horticulture on dyke (n=16)

1.72 0.93 157101 419084 261984 2.67

Improved farming of fresh water prawn and carps in pond and horticulture on dyke (n=6)

2.20 0.45 219357 458505 239148 2.09

Improved farming of tilapia in gher and horticulture on dyke (n=5)

3.04 2.57 189840 227566 37726 1.20

Improved farming of tilapia in pond and horticulture on dyke (n=4)

7.47 1.65 309239 627687 318449 2.03

Improved rice-fish farming with dyke cropping (n=10)

1.32 0.88 59706 121931 62225 2.04

Improved shrimp farming by stocking PCR tested PL in Gher (n=4)

0.43 0.32 94056 207214 113158 2.20

Activities Up to Year - 2 Target Year - 3

No. of District 20 ??

No. of Upazila 66 ??

No. of Union 191 ??

No. of direct client 10,177 (31% F) 5,500

No. of indirect client 12,787 (32.7% F) 13,815

No. Aqua demo. 390 220

OFSP & ST demo. 589 no. 720 no.

No. fish hatchery 30 no. 30 no. cont’d

No. of ART 153 13 (new)

Some Coverage in Numbers

Dissemination and Adoption Activities

Photo Presentation

PRA (FGD) with villagers

Farmers Training

Farmers Training

Participatory Adoption Trial’s Result

Linkage Event

Stakeholder workshop

Farmer’s Sharing in Workshop

Sharing Knowledge of Adoption Trial

Linkage with Input Dealers

Linkage with Fish hatchery

Lessons learnt Increased production to significant level

considering resilience and market price Lack of quality inputs e.g. Fingerling, PL, feed

mainly Improved technologies generating high

production but require high investment…..linking finance…Adoption??

Still many farmers are far behind from any extension supports like modern technologies.

Dependency on natural rainfall / water source is increasingly limiting aquaculture.

Exchange visit is very effective means for rapid transformation the technologies.

Lessons learnt – cont’d

Collaborative approach by 03 CG centers - CSISA village: generating effective results

Lack of participation in planning of trials, farmers ownership found less during implementation

Only good training course is not enough for effective farmer training – require high quality trainer, planning..

Linkage Events seems effective for secondary adoption – for CSISA indirect clients

Participatory demo/trials is initially hard to convince but very good for ownership and accountability

HH based technologies for nutrition, income and women empowerment created huge interest …

What does alignment mean for CSISA ?

Why? Implication? Workload?

Outcome? Financial? Human resources?• Geographical and Clients – Scale-out ?• Improved Technologies and varieties ?• Dissemination and implementation Strategy ?• Improved Nutrition and Women empowerment initiatives –• Communication and partnership –• Research issues –

What and How Alignment would translate for field implementation ?

AAS – WorldFish, CSISA-BD

Alignment ??

- For Challenged resources like – shaded pond, saline affected homestead, water logged area??

- Reducing cost of production – cost feed? Others?

- Development of aqua-machineries and linking with local service provider – AFP, Bottom cleaner…

Alignment for Farmers Need??

AFP trial Pond bottom cleaner