Lead, Sustainable Farming, Distribution & Youth in Extension

AGRA (ALLIANCE FOR A GREEN REVOLUTION IN AFRICA)

The Opportunity Lead – Sustainable Farming, Distribution and Youth in Extension Role purpose The Lead – Sustainable Farming, Distribution and Youth in Extension support the efforts of the Head of sustainable farming to ensure last mile delivery of inputs and services, which entails sustainable access to improved seed, fertilizer, and other inputs at the farmer level throughout the organization’s program area, eventually comprising 30 million farm families across Africa. Role Summary S/he will work closely with other colleagues in the area of sustainable intensification, extension and capacity building and resilience to ensure a continuum of learning and utilization of productivity-enhancing inputs among smallholder farmers. Key Measures of Performance The performance of this role holder will be assessed on the basis of the achievements made on: % improvement of access to relevant and quality farm inputs at farmer level % of increased literacy levels in productivity enhancement within smallholder farmers’ groups Quality of input products supplied and regulatory and control mechanisms Level of financing driven and achieved Number of input suppliers on boarded and the engagement of the private sector at large % increase of trained vs untrained Agro-dealers in any given area Major Duties and Responsibilities...

Ghana : International

2023-10-23

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The Impact of Farmer Field Days On the Crop Yield and Welfare

INTERNATIONAL FERTILIZER DEVELOPMENT CENTER (IFDC)

The impact of farmer field days on the crop yield and welfare among farmers in the northern region The transfer of agriculture technologies is as important as the design of the technologies. The suitability, packaging and delivery modes of the information on the innovation are necessary to enhance their uptake by the farmers. One such modes is farmer field days. Farmer field days is one of group extension methods where farmers gather on a particular farm/field on which an innovation is implemented. On such days, discussions are made on the innovation and farmers are made to observe and ask questions. Farmers can observe the results of an innovation, science can easily be translated into an easy-to-understand language for the farmers, thereby, stimulating the adoption of the innovation. Also, it offers the opportunity for researchers to obtain feedbacks on the introduced innovation, as such, helps to improve the design of future innovations taken into consideration the opinions of the farmers. Over the years, FERARI have implemented different fertilizer innovations on experimental trials. This involved extension officers, lead farmers and researchers. During major farm activities, farmer field days were organized by bringing together community farmers to the experimental fields for observations and...

Ghana : Western

2023-05-28

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