Leveraging remote sensing and ICT to facilitate yield maximisation, structured trading and inclusive value chain participation for smallholder staple grain farmers in Kenya

利用遥感和信息通信技术促进肯尼亚小农主粮农民的产量最大化、结构化贸易和包容性价值链参与

• 批准号: 47972
• 金额: $ 41.98万
• 依托单位: AGRI-EPI CENTRE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=47972
• 关键词: Leveraging; remote; sensing; ICT; facilitate

Finger millet grain is a super-food, containing at least 9% protein and a good balance of amino acids. It is an excellent dietary source of calcium, iron, manganese, and methionine, an amino acid lacking in the diets of hundreds of millions of poor who live on starchy foods such as cassava, plantain, polished rice and maize meal. It is a versatile foodstuff used as whole, cracked, or ground flour; a dough; or a grain like rice. It is favoured by and recommended to breastfeeding mothers, given its high calcium and iron content and is often fortified with other grain as a supplementary food for infants. As such, there is high demand for millet flour outstripping production across the country.Over the last decade, consumption in Kenya has stagnated at 6kg/head, mostly owing to declining production. Additionally, yields have declined to a lowly 200kg/acre against a potential of 1,500-3000kg/acre, while unreliable supplies have led to the loss of interest by millers. This project seeks to introduce finger millet as a cash crop for farmers in marginal agricultural areas during the long rain season, and a rotation crop such as soybean, groundnut, or sesame in the short rain season, to maximise yield and allow farmers to operate beyond subsistence.We will provide farmers with critical support including access to inputs, agronomic support, data driven advice and mechanisation through a purpose-built precision farming platform. Additionally, USOMI, through use of forward contracting, will guarantee the purchase of the whole crop obtained. We already have market for the finger millet and must increase yield to sustain supplies.Poultry farming using chickens with higher egg and meat production (adapted to local conditions) will also be introduced not only as a risk mitigation strategy but also as a complementary income source. The poultry will utilise any lower quality grain and other feed sources available in the environment. The recycling of potential waste grain into highly nutritious protein will ensure long term sustainability of the farming system.Availability of these two complementary enterprises will ensure that socioeconomic, nutritional and food security needs are properly met. Considering most diets in rural Kenya rely on high starch foods lacking balanced nutritional content, this project will increase intake of highly nutritious animal source foods alongside millet, a super-food.The outcomes of this project will have a high impact on alleviating the paradox of hungry farmers so prevalent in rural Kenya.

手指小米是一种超级食物，含有至少9%的蛋白质和良好的氨基酸平衡。它是钙、铁、锰和蛋氨酸的极好膳食来源，蛋氨酸是数亿穷人饮食中缺乏的一种氨基酸，他们以木薯、车前草、精米和玉米粉等淀粉类食物为生。它是一种用途广泛的食品，可以作为完整的，破碎的或磨碎的面粉;面团;或像大米一样的谷物。由于其钙和铁含量高，它受到母乳喂养母亲的青睐并被推荐给母乳喂养的母亲，并经常与其他谷物一起作为婴儿的补充食品。在过去十年中，肯尼亚的消费量一直停滞在6公斤/人，主要原因是产量下降。此外，产量已降至200公斤/英亩，而潜在产量为1，500 - 3000公斤/英亩，而不可靠的供应导致米莱尔失去兴趣。该项目旨在为边缘农业地区的农民在长雨季引入小米作为经济作物，在短雨季引入大豆、花生或芝麻等轮作作物，以最大限度地提高产量，并使农民能够在维持生计的基础上继续经营。我们将为农民提供关键支持，包括获得投入、农艺支持、通过专用的精准农业平台提供数据驱动的建议和机械化。此外，美国矿业开发公司通过使用远期合同，将保证购买所获得的全部作物。我们已经有了手指小米的市场，必须增加产量以维持供应，还将采用产蛋量和产肉量较高的鸡（适应当地条件）进行家禽养殖，这不仅是一项减轻风险的战略，也是一种补充收入来源。家禽将利用环境中任何质量较低的谷物和其他饲料来源。将潜在的废弃谷物再循环为高营养蛋白质将确保农业系统的长期可持续性，这两个互补企业的存在将确保社会经济、营养和粮食安全需求得到适当满足。考虑到肯尼亚农村地区的大多数饮食依赖于高淀粉食物，缺乏均衡的营养成分，该项目将增加营养丰富的动物源食物以及超级食物小米的摄入量。该项目的成果将对缓解肯尼亚农村地区普遍存在的饥饿农民的矛盾产生重大影响。