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Africa-Wide Aflasafe Program

Ranajit Bandyopadhyay IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria

Aflatoxin Awareness and Aflasafe Stakeholders’

Consultative Workshop, Lusaka, 28 April 2015

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• IITA

• USDA-ARS

• BMGF/USAID

• Doreo Partners

• National institutions (ZARI, NISIR)

Strong Partnership

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Nigeria: Efficacy on Maize

372

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

2009 2010 2011 2012

Aflasafe™ Control

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

2009 2010 2011 2012

82 94 83 86 82 93 89 90

51 14 199 38 51 14 166 38 Fields (#)

Less (%)

At Harvest After Storage

*All means of aflasafe and control pairs significantly different; Student’s t-test (P<0.05)

*

Aflato

xin

(ppb)

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Area Sample Treatment Mean

Aflatox (ppb)

Reduct. (%)

Mean Aflatox (ppb)

Reduct. (%)

Mean Aflatox (ppb)

Reduct. (%)

Diourbel

Harvest Treated 1.9

93 6.6

87 3.7

82 Control 29.7 50.1 20.3

Storage Treated 4.4

86 2.1

91 6.9

81 Control 31.3 22.1 35.5

Nioro

Harvest Treated 4.4

75 5.6

76 5.4

90 Control 17.6 23.1 55.7

Storage Treated 3.5

95 2.8

94 11.5

84 Control 52.1 46.7 72.5

*All means of aflasafe treated and control pairs significantly different; Student’s t-test (P<0.05)

Senegal: Efficacy of aflasafe SN01

2010 (n=40) 2011 (n=34) 2012 (n=71)

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5.9

76

1 8.5

Maize Groundnut

0.0

20.0

40.0

60.0

80.0

100.0

Afl

ato

xin

le

ve

l (p

pb

)

Control

Aflasafe

83.9% reduction

88.8% reduction

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74% reduction

96% reduction

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Product Development in Africa

Products ready for registration

Products under testing in farmers’ fields Strain development in progress

Senegal

Burkina

Faso Ghana

Nigeria

Kenya

Tanzania

Mozambique

Zambia

Product fully registered

Rwanda

Malawi

Burundi

Uganda

The

Gambia

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Challenges

• Aflatoxin is a hidden problem

• Chemical analysis required

• Awareness is low

• Long incubation for expression of liver cancer

• Regulations either non-existent or poorly enforced

• Market does not usually discriminate

• Demonstration of product value

• Lack of biopesticide manufacturers

The value of a technology on the shelf is as much as the cost of the space it occupies on the shelf.

Must translate knowledge into usable products and practices to benefit people

But……

Poultry Feeding Study

$3,200 net

profit from

10,000 birds

in 8 weeks

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Aflasafe maize feed Toxic maize feed

Innovation Platform

• Platform meetings with leadership and members of Poultry Association of Nigeria, feed manufacturers, maize aggregators, aflasafe farmers, vet professionals and regulators

• Poultry farmers to buy all aflasafe maize at a negotiated premium

• Agriculture ministry to fund NAFDAC to set up aflatoxin testing facilities in each state

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Integrated approach to manage aflatoxins

Aggregation

Aflasafe

Inputs & training to improve productivity

Farmer groups/ value chain

Training for pre/postharvest

afla management

Awareness and sensitizations Policy and advocacy

Market linkages

Aflatoxin testing

AgResults Aflasafe Pilot -- 2013

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Some key statistics

• Number of implementers: 4

• Number of farmers: 1,015

• Treated area: 1,457 ha

• Average productivity: 4.3 tons/ha

• Maize aggregated for sale: 2,031 tons

• Samples with <4 ppb AF (n = 660): 99%

• Samples with >70% aflasafe strains

(n = 88): 65% to 100%

• ROI: -28 to 510% (mean 210%)

• Aflasafe maize kept for family (n = 60): 46%

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Scaling-Out

• Nigeria: AgResults farmers to produce 260,000 tons of Aflasafe maize)

• Senegal: Area-wide treatment in 2013 and 2014; about 16 tons used

• Kenya: Government buy-in; about 230 tons procured; excellent support

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Aflasafe Manufacturing Facility

Large-scale: capacity 5 tons/hour Cost: ~US$1.6 million; Price: $14 - $18/ha Purpose: Scaling up

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Modular Manufacturing Facility

Capacity: 5 tons/day Cost: ~US$400,000 Purpose: Introduction Cost: $12 – 15/ha Labour intensive Employment friendly

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Current and future biocontrol efforts

• Create a sustainable system

(commercialization/public good) where

small holder farmers have access to

Aflasafe and are incentivized to utilize

Aflasafe to control aflatoxin levels

• Develop business plan (GIZ)

• Financing and implementation of

manufacturing facility

• Advocacy, awareness, demonstration of

product value

• Full registration, licensing and

stewardship

• Training and technical back-stopping

• Develop second generation product

• Develop regional strains

IITA

Tucson

USDA/ARS IITA, USDA, & Doreo have Teamed up to Bring

Aflatoxin Prevention to Africa

Made Possible by Many National Partners in Ministries, Industry, and on the Farm

Nigeria

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