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Multiplication of Groundnut Seeds, Mali, 2005-2012
Donor: IER
Partners: Kilabo, ICRISAT
Goal
To assist IER’s Groundnut Program in the supervision and the training of producers of groundnut seeds in rural areas.
The following objectives were defined for the production of seed in rural areas:
- To facilitate the supply of farmers of quality seed, in particular those of the federation "Balimayaton" and by extension all of the country’s seeds producers
- To set up a seed distribution network at the local and national level
- Reenergizing production of groundnuts by using improved varieties.
What We Do
- Identify areas and producers of groundnut seeds
- Supervise the seed production plots in collaboration with farmers associations
- Training of seed producers on the following schemes: the establishment and the management of a seed production plot, techniques of groundnut harvest and post-harvest handling.
Accomplishments
- Institutional capacity building of the Federation « Balimayaton »
- Training and supervision of seed producers
- Creation and training of a network of seed producers (organizing 5 farmers and an association of 60 women from the village of Sonkoria)
- Organization of the sale through inventory credit
- Support to seed production.
