Project Overview and Updates Agricultural Innovation Program (AIP)

39 Pages·2015·2.24 MB·English

by  Amina Khan

Agricultural Innovation Program (AIP) for Pakistan
Project Overview and Updates
April 2015
Agricultural Innovation Program (AIP) for Pakistan
Ways to More Effective
Agriculture Research for Development (AR4D)
in Pakistan
Activity Window
Provincial Agricultural Research
applied to
for Development Boards Science Window

Competitive Grants System Commissioned
Projects

Human Resource Development
Agricultural Innovation Program (AIP) for Pakistan
Presence in Pakistan
Science Window
Commissioned Projects
Commissioned Projects
Partnership for Delivery
Research for Development Continuum
Generation of Technology
• National and provincial agricultural research and
extension institutions and private sector research
organizations;
• International research organizations CIMMYT, IRRI, ILRI,
AVRDC, ICARDA etc.
Dissemination of Technologies
Seed companies (4 brothers, Jullundur seeds, Engro
corporation, and public sector organizations NARC,
CIMMYT, service providers, NGOs, extension workers.
Adoption of Technologies (Awareness and marketing)
Farmer groups, extension agents, ministry of food security,
media, agricultural colleges, agro dealers, stockists, women
group. Service providers etc.
Commissioned Projects

• Dairy Value Chain (DVC)
• Small Ruminants Value Chain (SR VC)
• Fodder, Feed & Rangeland (FFR)
Rapid Assessment Tools identified constraints in dairy
farming
• Cows are underfed
• Restricted access to water
• Low Bargaining power of farmers
Solution: value chain approach adaptation can enhance
productivity enhancement and increase income
• A progressive Farmer from KP purchased milking
animal at premium price - AIP intervened and
provided technical advice, and now he rears his own
replacement heifers
• AIP team advice on feed
preparation and
balanced feeding
increased milk production 7
litter per day
Rapid Assessment Tools developed to identify constraints
and addressed.

• Trained: volunteer farmer
• Provision: veterinary kits and vaccine containers
• Implemented: parasitic control program
• Supplemental feed for productivity
• Formed village level farmer organization in Chakwal
• Introduced
• PPR vaccine production protocol for economic benefits.
• First time in Pakistan 2 goat Semen Production Units
established
• Trained: 36 animal nutritionists/production-Feed
Assessment Tool
• Assess quality of feed: Stover's from 72 Maize hybrid
varieties biomass recorded and farmers planted
multi-cut like Mott grass, to overcome food shortage
• Introduced multipurpose spineless cactus. A total
3000 single pads planted in farmers fields
• Introduced Leguminous tree fodder (Ipil Ipil), forage
etc. in Punjab
• Species of grasses and shrubs/trees growing in the
rangelands in Chakwal were inventoried
Commissioned Projects
Commissioned Projects

• Protected Cultivation of Vegetables
• Improved Mungbean Production
• Vegetable Value Chains

Geographical focus:
20 districts of Punjab, KP, Sindh, Balochistan, Gilgit-
Baltistan, and AJK
Beneficiaries: 351 direct beneficiaries.