Transcript IFDC Challenges - Symposium 2011

IFDC
Farmers need more
market information
Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State
6 May 2011 at FAO, Rome
Bridget Okumu
IFDC
IFDC
Improving access to market
and technical information
on agricultural inputs
in Eastern and Southern Africa
The AMITSA objectives
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Linking agro-dealers
to agro input suppliers
Linking agro-dealers
to farmers
Reducing transaction
costs and time
Improving agro-input
availability and use
IFDC
IFDC
The AMITSA approach
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Building networks and
partnerships at
regional and local
levels
Engaging agro-dealers
as primary providers
and users of MIS
Ensuring free access
and sharing of market
information using web
and mobiles
AMITSA partners
IFDC
From international to
regional and local
partners
• Agro input industry
• Trade associations
• Farmers groups
• Public sector
• Research
• Projects
• Donors
The AMITSA network
BURUNDI
KENYA
MALAWI
MOZAMBIQUE
RWANDA
TANZANIA
UGANDA
ZAMBIA
2011 _________
ZIMBABWE
SWAZILAND
ETHIOPIA
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8 countries
230 agro-dealers
120 towns
50 agro-inputs
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IFDC
Fertilizers
Seeds
Pesticides
Retail prices
Sales trends
Building and promoting the network
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Capacity building
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TOT for AMITSA champions (24 in Dec 2010)
Agro dealers trainings (230 in 8 countries)
AMITSA partners training (22 in May 2011)
Promotion
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AMITSA launch in Nairobi (FCI summit, May 2011)
Participation in 10 workshops, conferences
AMITSA in COMRAP trainings
Brochures, videos, interviews, pictures
IFDC
www.amitsa.org
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IFDC
Website (2010)
Mobile apps (2011)
Social media (Sept)
Prices | Online statistics | Directories | Market news | Publications | Events
Monthly price reports
Pesticide
average price
(US$) per pack
Country
Burundi
Kenya
Malawi
Mozambique
Rwanda
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Fungicide
Herbicide
Insecticide
Copper
Glyphosat
Dimethoat
Mancozeb 2,4-D Amine
ChlorpyrifosHydroxide
e
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(80% WP) (720 G/l Sl)
ethyl (480 G/l)
(eq 50%)
(360 g/l)
(400 G/l)
1 kg
1 kg
1 litre
1 litre
1 litre
1 litre
2.44
6.87
10.37
11.39
12.10
12.24
7.63
10.83
23.86
12.63
11.59
11.38
11.86
11.40
15.65
15.96
12.47
9.84
8.00
13.57
4.16
4.96
18.31
10.61
10.99
8.67
7.31
5.95
9.04
14.22
3.99
5.82
6.30
6.80
5.76
7.04
6.50
10.44
11.95
14.81
29.09
IFDC
Local, national
and international
 Retail prices
 Sales trends
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Free
 Online reports
 On line statistics
 Newsletter: new !
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IFDC
Uganda average
retail price trend (UGX
per kg)
Uganda
Fertilizer
prices
3000
2500
Price (UGX)
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1500
1000
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Mar-10 Apr-10 May-10 Jun-10
Jul-10
NPK 17 17 17
Aug-10 Sep-10 Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10 Jan-11 Feb-11 Mar-11 Apr-11 May-11 Jun-11
NPK 25 5 5 + 5S
CAN 26 0 0
UREA 46 0 0
DAP 18 46 0
Jul-11
Aug-11
IFDC
International price 08/2011
IFDC
IFDC
Going mobile with esoko
IFDC
Posting and getting
prices
 Sharing market
information with 10,000+
agro-dealers and more
than 100,000 farmers
 NEXT: Technical,
market and extension
messages
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 2-way
 Customized
 Any phone
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Delivering information to agro dealers
on their mobile phones
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7,000 SMS pm reaching 370 AMITSA
agro dealers since June 2011
Up to 100,000 SMS pm reaching up to 15,000 agro dealers
in 8 ESA countries by end of 2011
IFDC
Achievements
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IFDC
IT development
 Mobile tools (data collection & sharing) and
 Website, Facebook and Twitter in Sept 2011, Media
gallery, input catalogue
Technical trainings: Agro dealers and partners
Data processing & sharing
 price database, mobile alerts, SMS push, emails,
websites, E-newsletters
Agro input data mining (non-price data) in ESA (KE,UG,TZ)
AMITSA promotion and partnership
AMITSA expansion
Staff development
Challenges
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Sustaining agro dealers
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Technology
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Keeping agro dealers motivated to continue to
voluntarily send monthly input prices
New mobile tools introduced in 2011 need
continuous fixing (MOBI,SMS push, network
compatibility).
Complexity of input MIS
Measuring impacts
IFDC
IFDC
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