CSISA - CIMMYT Activities

TP Tiwari and Team

GBDC Reflection meeting, 11.04.2013 Hotel Lake Castle, Gulshan 2, Dhaka

CSISA expansion in Bangladesh

5-year investment from USAID Bangladesh (FtF- $24.4 m) 3 CG centers (CIMMYT, IRRI, WorldFish) National Research and Development partners including CBOs Emphasis on technology delivery, capacity building, and adaptive research

Vision of Success for CSISA - BD

By the end of Year 5 (across six hubs):

60,000 HH (direct beneficieries) with net annual income increase of $350 per HH 300,000 HH (indirectly) through dissemination-related activities >1 M HH (indirectly) through linkages, synergies and innovative partnerships

CIMMYT Activity
Technology Verification
Adaptive variety trials (PVS) CA based crop management
PPP to promote CA based farm machineries Tillage x residue

Soil fertility management Sowing dates x nitrogen interaction

Dissemination of improved Technologies

Community based demonstration Capacity and awareness building Improved market linkages and livelihood systems Seed systems, M4HC Public Private Partnership

Technology verification
Adaptive varietal trials (PVS on hybrid maize)

Fig. Performance (yield t/ha) of hybrids maize in multi-locations adaptive trials in 2011-12. Locally popular hybrids means, Faridpur = Pacific; Khulna = DMH852; Mymensingh = Miracle; Jessore=Sunshine; Barisal=827K

1. Contd. Technology verification (n=146)

On-farm nutrient omission and sufficiency trials to develop site specific nutrient recommendations for rabi season maize CIMMYT/IRRI/IPNI

1. Contd. Technology verification

Adaptive trials on new wheat genotypes under different sowing dates and nitrogen rates in Southern Bangladesh. 48 adaptive trials were conducted to compare the performance of BARI Gom 27 (Ug99 and heat tolerant) & BARI Gom-25 (heat & salinity tolerant) with local variety No variety x salinity interaction, but time of planting had significant effect

1. Contd. Technology verification

Comparison of CA and Conventional Tillage in Maize-Rice rotation in low land of Southern Bangladesh.
conducted on tillage methods.
strip till ( 8 t/ha) compared to conventional till maize (6 t/ha)

40 adaptive trials were

1. Contd. Public-private partnership to commercialize and scale up machinery for conservation agriculture in Bangladesh
Partnered with International Development Enterprises (iDE) in 2012 to develop an innovative business model 54 Chinese seeder-fertilizer drills imported and distributed (Solar-vision) 7,500 ha of wheat and mungbean crops to be sown by conservation agriculture strip till machines in 2013

2. Dissemination of improved technologies

2. Community based Demonstrations (n=539) Optimizing the dry season crop window is key

Short/Medium duration rainy season rice Quick harvest-planting turnaround

Emphasizing Diversified and Economical Crop Rotation Options for Farmers

DSR Rice

Strip Till Wheat Mung Bean

 Profitable inter-cropping
Poor farmers can earn additional income of US$978 ha-1 with additional investment of US$151 ha1 when intercropping red amaranth with maize.

2. contd. Capacity building (Training support Farmer, Researcher, Extension Worker, Service providers)
Event Name Achievement (Number of farmers) Total Male Female 6010 4695 1315

Farmers training (Maize, wheat, CA based Crop Management) Field days (Farmer#) Exchange visits & meeting Training for service provider/operator/partner Staff training

3331 202 217 36

1928 198 212 35

1403 12 5 1

2. contd. Awareness building - Video

A DVD entitled Grow More, Save More and Earn More 48,396 (78% Male; 22% Female) watched the videos 5,000 copies have been distributed and requests are coming for more 500 copies will be distributed to Upazilla level Agri. Dev. Offices through BARC

2. contd. Improving Market Linkages

Collaborated with local NGOs to organize 2,000 small-scale farmers into 76 maize producer groups Linked with feed mills no marketing issue now Similar sorts of effort has been made in other locations such as; Mymensingh

Seed Summit
Jointly organized by the MoA and CIMMYT-CSISA-BD on 26th April, 2012
To develop a strategic roadmap for sustainable seed systems, emphasizing wheat and maize in Bangladesh. 30 participants representing the MoA, BARC, BADC, BARI, and several private seed companies operating in Bangladesh, and CIMMYT, IRRI, IFPRI and the USAID attended the summit

3. Maize use diversification

Maize for human consumption
Orientation program for research and development leaders Orientation for local restaurant people and other stakeholders (PRAN, Square, etc.) BARC Priority Research (2011) maize for human food

CSISA-CIMMYT Future plan

Develop and deliver germpalsm (Maize and Wheat) tolerant to Biotic and abiotic stresses CA based agronomic studies
Agronomic studies (sowing dates, seed rates, etc.). Cropping system studies Soil fertility management Profitable inter-cropping Tillage methods/planting systems Residue and weed management Water management Farm machineries, and so on

Improve seed systems Policy intervention

CA-based Seeders for Use by Small Scale Farmers in Bangladesh

Permanent Raised Bed Seeder Strip Till Seeder

Axial Flow Pump

Intervention in Charland areas Mymensingh