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Factors Influencing Farmers’ Decision for Adopting Improved Kounouz Variety and Feed Blocks in Tunisia
Despite the high potential of agricultural innovative technologies, the adoption rate by the small farmers in the context of livestock-barley systems in Tunisia is very slow. This paper aims to understand the main factors ...
Summary final technical report
It is a technical report about project approach, results and lessons learned
Report on 4 farmer field days about pellets and mash in Tunisia
The CRP livestock “feed and forages” flagship wants to develop business around feed processing technologies like pellet and mash production. A mobile grinder, which can be operated by PTO or 380 V has been introduced by ...
Business Model for Pellet and Mash Producing Enterprises
The report describes the opportunity for small rural enterprises, agri-preneurs or farmer cooperatives to use a local pelleting machine or a local mobile grinder to carry out an income generating activity . It shows ...
MIND THE GAP “Improving Dissemination Strategies to Increase Technology Adoption by Smallholders” Project Lessons Learned
Proven agricultural technologies that can improve lives often have low adoption rates due to lack of effective service delivery systems and enabling policy environment. Agricultural extension is a common method to introduce ...
Improving Dissemination Strategies to Increase Technology Adoption by Smallholders in the Tunisian Arid Land Areas: An assessment from follow up survey
This present study comes as a second step of the research project “Mind the Gap: Improving Dissemination Strategies to Increase Technology Adoption by Smallholders” and presents the results of the follow-up survey conducted ...
Report on a short survey about the price and technical information needs of smallholder farmers in Tunisia
The ICT2Scale project is a follow up project of the large “Mind the Gap” project which has used SMS messages as a dissemination strategy to test adoption of technologies. An internal assessment has proven that farmers ...
Report on small seed treatment units for lead farmers in Tunisia
The conventional national seed system in Tunisia is not providing enough quality forage seeds. Due to insufficient forage seed supply, but also to save costs, many small-scale farmers prefer using their own farm seed. The ...
Inception workshop on “ICT2Scale – Access to E-Learning and Cell Phone-based Services to Strengthen Extension Services for Smallholder Farmers in Tunisia”
The report shows the different steps of the inception workshop and the main outline of the project. It also shows the list of developed SMS messages which were elaborated during the workshop and will be send to 1000 farmers.