Achievement

2012 ACHIEVEMENT

·        Multiplication of 547mt of foundation seed to about 2,807mt of certified seed for distribution to farmers through the GES scheme in 2013

·        NCRI produced 10mt and 29mt of breeder and foundation seeds respectively, while the IITA Ibadan produced 40mt all for multiplication into certified seed which was distributed in 2013.

·        Sensitization/advocacy visit was conducted to seven states namely: Benue, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Niger, Plateau and FCT.

·        Visit to some soybean end-users: Nestle PLC Lagos, Obasanjo Holdings, Animal Care Services Consult in Ogun State, Hule Soybean Mills in Makurdi, Falke Soybean Mills in Kaduna and Small/Medium Scale Poultry Feed Mills in Kaduna and States for marketing enhancement strategy.

·        Six staff trained in the use of GPS to survey and record actual cropped area.

·        The value chain in collaboration with state government organised farmers into production clusters in seven (7) statesviz: Benue, Nasarawa, Enugu, Kaduna, Plateau, Katsina and Niger.

·        A total of about 105,154 soybean farmers were registered in the 36 States of the Federation and FCT.

2013 ACHIEVEMENT

·        The STVC was successfully implemented in 20 states namely: Kaduna, Benue, Kano, Gombe, Bauchi, Taraba, Katsina, Kebbi, Kwara, Jigawa, Niger, Nasarawa, FCT, Oyo, Plateau, Cross-River, Zamfara, Ekiti, Kogi and Sokoto.

·        70mt of foundation and 5mt of breeder seeds were produced by NCRI for multiplication into certified seeds.

·        The following inputs were distributed to 40,000 farmers through GES out of which 27,556 farmers redeemed.

ü  2,000mt of certified seeds distributed to farmers @ 50kg/farmers.

ü  80,000 bags of single superphosphate (SSP) fertilizer distributed to farmers @ 2 bags/farmers.

ü  80,000 litres of herbicide @ 2litres / Farmers and

ü  400,000 sachets of seed – dressing fungicide @10 sachets/farmer.

ü  Each farmer was required to pay a token of N6,800 for GES input package out of the total inputs cost of N23,600 (the seed component was at no cost to the farmer).

·        Carried out Sensitization workshop with the stakeholders in 20 soybean producing states to present with the action plan of the value chain’s activities and to get them involved in the programme.

·        Organised a Stakeholders’ workshop in IITA Ibadan on re-packaging the soybean transformation agenda as a Stand-alone Transformation Value Chain with the objective of coming up with a list of priority interventions, budget and planned activities.

·        Organised a Training workshop at AkperaOrshi College of Agriculture Yandev Benue for 180 farmers on improved agronomic practices to enhance soybean production output, farm gate processing and marketing to improve product quality.

·        Procured 40 units of multi-purpose threshing machines for distribution to farmers’ cooperative group (at 50% subsidy) to reduce drudgery in farm-gate processing and encourage mechanical method of threshing among farmers.

·        Contract was awarded to NCAM to fabricate 100 units of multipurpose threshing machines for farm – gate processing for distribution to soybean farmers, 40 units has been fabricated and awaiting certification before distribution to farmers.

2014 ACHIEVEMENT

·        Additional registration of farmers in the 20 States

·        The Soybean farmers’ lists from the States were uploaded into the data base of Cellulant and a roll-out template was prepared by Cellulant and sent to all participating States.

·        Supported about 29,830 out of 50,000 farmers targeted in the 20 implementing states with: 25kg of improved soybean certified seed at 10% subsidy, 2 bags of 50kg SSP fertilizer and 1 litre of herbicide per farmer both at 50% subsidy respectively.

·        NCRI produced 86mt of Foundation Seeds of soybean to be multiplied into certified seed for distribution to farmers in 2015.