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An exploratory Scaling Readiness assessment of mechanical Seed Cleaning and the establishment of farmer cooperatives to enhance land productivity and rural income
No full textIn this report the Scaling Readiness of the innovation "mechanical Seed Cleaning and the establishment of farmer cooperatives to enhance land productivity and rural income" is assessed
La gouvernance des ressources naturelles
No full textTraining Material of a two days Training on Rangeland Governance designed for Tunisian Governmental Forest Officer
Training report on seed production. 24 – 28 September 2018, Hammamet, Tunisia
No full textThe five day training workshop aimed to improve the seed production capacity of three seed producing cooperatives and one seed company in Tunisia. Besides technical advises, rules and regulation of national seed policy programs were shared with participants. A field visit to a modern seed treatment unit was organized
Final workshop report of CRP livestock "Feed and Forages" project in Tunisia
No full textThe report shows general information on project achievements and results of group work of different farmer organizations benefiting from different types of machinery. It also presents the Plantix application
Référentiel Technico-Economique d’un Projet d’une Unité de Fabrication des Blocs Alimentaires du Bétail en Tunisie
No full textL’objectif du projet est la valorisation des sous-produits agricoles et leur recyclage dans un système bien étudié afin de les transformer en unités des blocs alimentaires pour le bétail en respectant les proportions appropriées. Il s’agit de collecter toute la matière végétale et l’utiliser, en se basant sur une combinaison nutritive conçue a priori, et la transformer en tant que unités des blocs alimentaires.
Plusieurs arguments de base militent en faveur de la réalisation d’un tel projet :
1. le manque de ressources fourragères dans plusieurs régions du pays. Pénurie de sources d'alimentation locales et les prix élevés des aliments importés
2. L’abondance et la diversification des sous-produits qui peuvent être valorisé pour l’alimentation du bétail
3. Le cout très avantageux des unités fourragères produites
4. Le débarrassèrent de certains déchets agricoles
5. Fournir une alimentation pas chère et de qualité en période de pénurie des ressources fourragères ou quand ces derniers se trouvent très coûteux ou interrompue dans le marché local.
6. Le besoin urgent de fournir des aliments complémentaires en particulier durant les mois d'hiver et d'automne, où l'état du pâturage naturel est faible/fragil
Improving Feed for Increasing Smallholders Income
No full textThe livestock sector presents an important agricultural activity in Tunisia, generating a significant additional income particularly for smallholder farmers and livestock owners with little or no land. Livestock husbandry that is focused on selling red meat is one of the main cash-creating economic activities in rural areas in Tunisia. However, the diagnosis of the red meat value chain reflects the unstable economic environment, especially after the revolution of 2011. The consequent increase in production costs and fluctuations in selling prices directly affect the livelihoods of livestock owners and impede their adaptation to the new context.
A main problem within the red meat value chain is insufficient and inappropriate animal feeding leading to low or moderate performances, high rates of abortion and death losses among livestock, especially lambs. This considerably decreases farmer’s margins and their incomes. Despite feeding costs constituting more than 60 percent of the total cost of meat or milk production, forage production is highly related to rainfall and remains very limited and feed is mainly purchased from favorable regions or imported. The situation is further exacerbated by recurrent droughts and associated climate variability
Small-scale feed grinder to improve the quality of roughage feed in Chouarnia CLCA Site, Seliana North West Tunisia
No full textICARDA donated twenty (20) mobile grinders to young entrepreneurs and farmers associations in Northern, Central and Southern Tunisia. The grinders can chop and grind materiel like cactus cladodes and fruits, small olive branches and leaves, straw, hay, date kernels, cereals, faba beans etc. and work with both, 380 V or PTO powered by a tractor. Production capacity per day varies between 1.5 and 10 t, depending on the materiel to be chopped.
Low cost feed supply is a major constraint for small scale livestock farmers in Northern, Central and Southern Tunisia, in particular during summer. Through grinding of locally available feed the intake will be increased, and productivity gained. Beneficiaries, either entrepreneurs or farmer associations, d use the machine to develop their feed and / or compost business. They either produce and sell the final product or they provide grinding services to farmers. It is an ideal tool for smallholder farmers to improve their incomes which represents an opportunity for improved livelihoods in traditional small-scale farming. These grinders can lead to reducing costs and thus increasing income. The use of these tools can reduce the labor time spent on feed-farming operations, hence enabling more time for small-scale farmers, especially for women farmers to carry out additional operations
Mobile seed cleaning and treatment unit designed and developed with support from ICARDA
No full textICARDA and its national partners in Tunisia designed and developed a prototype of a “Mobile seed cleaning and treatment unit” which has also been locally manufactured at low cost. One-unit costs 12.500 TND (about 4.350 US$) and has a capacity of about 800 kg / hour depending on the kind of seeds treated. Four (4) units have been delivered and distributed to farmers’ associations having between 150 and 350 members each and are located in different North Western and Central regions of Tunisia (on average, over 1, 000 small-scale farmers will benefit directly from these units). Members of these associations rarely purchase forage seeds on the market; either because they are not available on the market or prefer to use their own farm seeds to reduce costs. These farm seeds are normally cleaned manually, so the final product still contains some unproductive seeds (broken seeds or small sized seeds). With the help of these Mobile seed cleaning and treatment unit, members of these farmer associations can significantly increase their seed quality and consequently their barley fodder production. In addition, the unit can serve as an income generating activity for the association as farmers have to pay renting fees to use the machine
Harnessing Chat GPT (generative pretrained transformer) to engage youth and women in climate-smart and sustainable livestock farming
No full textThis literature review on harnessing Chat GPT focusses on how Chat GPT guides youth and women on feed production. least cost formulation, forecasting feed balance. It highlights advances, gaps and opportunities in literature
Synthesis Mind the Gap
No full textThe brochure describes the project approach, a synthesis of results and recommendation
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