Scheduled Planting and Harvest Recommendations for Cassava

Product development:

decision support tool that provides recommendations on Scheduled Planting practices to ensure a more continuous supply of cassava fresh roots to the processing industry in key areas in Tanzania (and Nigeria)

Overall goals

Demand-driven, rapid and cost-effective development of a tool for Scheduled Planting; demand creation with service providers; mainstream approaches for adoption by national research organizations

Primary client

Development organizations / service providers working with farmers that produce for the processing industry: CAVA-II and Psaltry International Ltd. in Nigeria, and CAVA-II in Tanzania

Product development protocol

(to be validated and refined in a collaborative effort involving IITA, FUNAAB, NRCRI, ARI, CIAT, ETH and KUL)

  • delineate target areas and collate fresh root prices and transport costs
  • assemble a draft version (V0) of the tool based on secondary information
  • conduct researcher-managed trials and a first series of multilocational on-farm validation trials to assess options for Scheduled Planting and delaying harvest
  • use findings to parametrize and cross-validate DSSAT model, conduct additional series of field trials to refine tool (V1-V2)
  • design and format tool to facilitate use by development organizations (VF)

Tool format

NIGERIA

Scheduled Planting and Harvest Cassava - Hectare

Scheduled Planting and Harvest Cassava - Acre

TANZANIA

Scheduled Planting and Harvest Cassava - Hectare

Scheduled Planting and Harvest Cassava - Acre

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Price: Free

Outcome goals

A decision support tool for selected AoIs in Nigeria and Tanzania; analytical tools, approaches and protocols for tool development; ROI of the overall R&D approach; prioritized service providers use the decision support tool

Project work flow

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