Production & NAADS
Production and Marketing is one of the Sectors with the aims of improving the quality of life of the people of Kiboga District. The Sector comprises of the Departments of Crop, Fisheries, Veterinary, Entomology, Trade and Industry. The Sector is mandated to support, promote, and guide on all crop, livestock, Fisheries and natural resource utilization
NAADS programme has been in implementation for four years. NAADS phase I ended in June 2010 and from July 2010, phase two started, unfortunately the programme was temporarily suspended until late November 2010. The programme implementation started with sensitizations because the implementation guidelines had been redesigned.
NAADS phase two in the district, has been in implementation for only six months because District and Sub County sensitizations were carried out in the in the last week of December 2010. Since in phase II Village approach is being emphasized; this was done in January 2011. Mobilization and sensitization of farming communities was done and Village Farmer Fora established in each village. By the end of the financial year 2010/2011 238 Villages had established Village Farmer Fora and the respective Village Farmer Fora Executive and Village Procurement committees.
After establishment of village farmer forum in each village, enterprises were selected followed by selection of beneficiaries and selection of village procurement committees followed. The enterprises which were selected in the villages within a particular parish were almost similar across.
The percentage of funding by farmers, Sub County and district has deteriorated while that of government has remained the same as compared to last financial year 2009/2010. Last FY 2009/2010 farmers co funded by 84% while this financial year 2010/2011 56% has been realized. Sub Counties Last FY 2009/2010 paid 68.1% of their obligation while this FY 2010/2011 44% has been realized. The district in FY 2009/2010 they co funded 100.1% but this financial year 2010/2011 8.5% has been paid.
The total budget for this FY 2010/2011 was shs 1,290,890,000 of which Shs 1,180,565,000 was to be transferred to district from central government and the rest to be co funding (Shs 107,483,226) by the district, sub counties and farmers. The central government transferred Shs 1,180,565,000 which is 100%. A total of Shs 45,251,350 was paid out of Shs 107,483,206 which is 42.1% of the total budget. After H.E the President’s pronouncement about farmer co funding; Shs 18,089,760 was lost. This was supposed to be paid by food security farmers.
PROGRESS IN IMPLEMENTATION
Subcomponent 2.1 Joint prioritization, planning adaptive Research and Technology scale up.
2 banana trials were established in Kibiga and Bukomero Sub County which are some of the Banana growing sub counties. Each trial is of 100 plants of four different varieties all subjected to similar conditions to see which one will perform better such that we promote that variety in the sub county. The limitation is that one trial in the whole sub county may not give representative data to be relied on for an appropriate decision to be taken.
A number of demonstration materials were procured and given to the AASPs. These ranged from protective wears to Agrochemicals as indicated in Fig 1.
Subcomponent 2.2 Institutional and Human Capacity Strengthening
All the seven (7) Sub County NAADS Coordinators and fourteen (14) AASPs were trained in project monitoring and evaluation for three days. In the original plan it was training 3 Sub County NAADS Coordinators and seven AASPs but it was realized that it would be difficult for those trained to apply what they have learnt when their colleagues are not trained.
Subcomponent 3.1 Farmer Institution Development (FID)
During the quarter one district farmer forum was conducted to elect a Chairperson District farmer forum after the one who had been there was from a sub county which is in Kyankwanzi District. So effective July 2010 the position fell vacant. The meeting was convened by the Chief Administrative Officer. The election process was by secret ballot the CAO was the returning Officer. After the election Mr. Kitaka Mayanja Nathan emerged the winner.
The procurement process of FID service provider was completed and a contract was signed between the Service Provider (DATAQUEST (U) LTD) and the District. The contract is for three months starting from 29th June 2011 to 29th September 2011.
Subcomponent 3.2 Technology Promotion and Farmer Access to Information/Knowledge
Since the programme had been suspended for some time when it resumed there was need to resensitize the masses and one of the channels that was used for sensitization was radio talk show and spot messages. In the quarter 1 radio programme was hosted on radio Kiboga. In total 3 radio programmes were hosted and 20 spot messages ran. What emerged from the radio programmes indicated that a lot still need to be done as far as mobilization is concerned. In addition to radio pragrammes there were sensitization meetings at parish and village level for registration of households in each village, formation of Village farmer for a, selection of food security enterprises, Selection of food security farmers and village procurement committees. The selection exercise for food security farmers was over seen by the both the sub county and District coordination committees. Also market-oriented farmers were selected.
238 Village Farmer Fora were established and 3700 food security farmers were selected in the whole district.
Figure 2: Farmers selecting food security enterprises and Food security farmers in one of the villages of Kibiga Sub County
Subcomponent 3.3 Technology Uptake Grant
3916 (3700 food security farmers and 216 market oriented farmers) farmers were selected of which 3837 (3643 food security farmers and 194 market oriented farmers) farmers were supported (as indicated Table I &II). This is 98% of the selected farmers were supported.
| Sub County | Food Security Farmers | Market-oriented Farmers |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|
Lwamata |
800 |
48 |
848 |
Kibiga |
600 |
36 |
636 |
Kiboga Town Council |
400 |
24 |
424 |
Kapeke |
400 |
24 |
424 |
Ddwaniro |
400 |
24 |
424 |
Bukomero |
600 |
36 |
636 |
Muwanga |
500 |
24 |
524 |
Total |
3700 |
216 |
3916 |
Table 1: Selected farmers for FY 2010/2011
| Sub County | No. of Food Security Farmers | No. of Market-oriented Farmers | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
Lwamata |
800 |
36 |
836 |
Kibiga |
543 |
29 |
572 |
Kiboga Town Council |
400 |
24 |
424 |
Kapeke |
400 |
24 |
424 |
Ddwaniro |
400 |
24 |
424 |
Bukomero |
600 |
33 |
633 |
Muwanga |
500 |
24 |
524 |
Total |
3643 |
194 |
3837 |
Table II: Supported farmers for FY 2010/2011
A number of items were procured in the financial year 2010/2011 as indicated in Table III.
| Items procured and distributed | Quantity | No. of beneficiaries |
|---|---|---|
Banana |
40,217 |
398 |
Maize |
9,899 |
484 |
Beans |
5,706 |
239 |
Irish potatoes |
|
93 |
Local poultry |
15,496 |
574 |
Layer chicks |
10,683 |
44 |
Broilers |
1,050 |
3 |
Poultry feeds |
31,532 |
82 |
Assorted animal and poultry drugs |
|
20 |
Goats |
1,147 |
1,147 |
Sheep |
282 |
279 |
Heifers |
116 |
116 |
Freisians Bulls |
2 |
2 |
Dewormers for live stock |
156 |
256 |
Imizol |
33 |
33 |
Acaricides |
78 |
116 |
Mineral Blocks |
25 |
25 |
Cassava |
49 |
6 |
Ground nuts |
352 |
23 |
Herbicides |
3,313 |
295 |
Cabbages |
56 |
6 |
Onions |
16 |
16 |
Tomatoes |
119 |
43 |
Mancozeb |
573 |
183 |
Wheel barrow |
3 |
3 |
Spray pumps |
32 |
32 |
Fertilizers |
3,161 |
130 |
Hoes |
3,037 |
1,194 |
Rocket |
37 |
13 |
Coffee seedlings |
3,200 |
16 |
Dimethoate |
32 |
16 |
Fungicides |
28 |
14 |
Dursban |
31 |
31 |
Table III: Items procured and number of beneficiaries FY 2010/2011
Figure 3: Some of the goats given to the farmers of Kagobe parish in Kapeke Sub County and a farmer with one of heifer he received in Lwamata Sub County
Subcomponent 4.1 Agribusiness Development Services
The constraints to Farming As A Business are low volumes of agricultural produce and poor quality of the produce. In order to address the above constraints farmers need to be organized into bigger groups which are market-oriented. The journey towards that has started with contracting of a Service Provider (DATAQUEST (U) LTD) for Higher Level Farmer Organizations (HLFOs) development.
Subcomponent 5.1 NAADS Management and Coordination
The programme has substantively appointed NAADS Coordinators for each of the 6 rural sub county and town council.
During the quarter an annual review was conducted to evaluate the implementation of NAADS phase II. According to the discussions which took place farmers wanted to either receive cash or use their own home saved seeds other than the improved seeds.
Figure 4: Participants in group discussion during the Annual review
Monitoring of the programme was done by different stakeholders (Resident District Commissioner, District Internal Security Officer, L.C.V Chairman, Chief Administrative Officer, District Community Development Officer, District Planner, Secretary for Production, Chairperson Production Committee, District Production Officer and District NAADS Coordinator). From the monitoring it was observed that farmers were not adequately prepared to receive the items. This was partly due to the fact that the programme was suspended for some time and all activities were supposed to be compressed in one season so the extension workers were overwhelmed by the big number of farmers they had visit before they are given the items. The team agreed that this financial year things have to change and all beneficiaries be visited by the AASP before they can be given the inputs.
Lesson(s) Learned
The negative publication of the programme left a dent in the programme despite changes in the implementation guidelines this was manifested in the poor turn ups for the sensitization workshops.
