cowpea improvement program_ghana_tl iii annual meet

Tropical legumes III year 2 workplan

Cowpea Improvement Programme – Ghana

TL III annual review meeting

3-4 March 2016

Chrismar hotel, Livingstone Zambia

Objective 3. To enhance cowpea productivity and production in drought prone areas

of Ghana

Sub-activity 3.1: SARI breeding programme regularly provide well-adapted and market

preferred improved cowpea cultivars to farmers as per their requirements

Milestone Specific interventions

Responsibility Date of completion

Output

Phenotyping

and

evaluation

data

collected

using hand-

held device

(e.g.,

electronic

field book)

at SARI

Training of

SARI’S

research

technicians

on the use of

electronic

fieldbook

(tablet) to

capture and

analyse data

M. Haruna

R. Oteng-

Frimpong

April 2016 Phenotyping

platform

established

using

electronic

field book


of Ghana





Output

IBP tools

such as

MBDT,

OptiMAS,

and ISMU

used to

facilitate

MABC and

MARS in

SARI

Two weeks

refresher

course for 2

SARI

scientists on

phenotyping,

genotyping

and use of

IBP tools eg.

MBDT,

OptiMAS,

ISMU etc. at

IITA

A.Gloria

Yaw

Owusu

June 2016 IBM

platform

established

in IITA and

SARI


of Ghana





Output

Different

data sets

(pedigree,

phenotyping

and

genotyping)

stored in

appropriate

databases

SARI

scientists

will be

trained on

the creation

and storage

of databases

using BMS

M. Haruna

R. Oteng-

Frimpong

May 2016 Data

management

using BMS

established

Activity 3.2. Breeding Pipeline - SARI using improved cowpea breeding lines for developing

better varieties

Milestone Specific interventions Responsibility Date of

completion

Output

At least 30

breeding lines

with aphid,

Striga, and

bacterial blight

resistance

developed using

MABC

1. Screen MABC

populations received

from IITA for aphids,

striga and bacterial

blight resistance

2. Multi-location testing

of lines using FPVS.

3. On-farm participatory

evaluation of lines.

4. Sensory/nutritional

evaluation of lines

with resistance to

aphids and striga

5. Introgressing striga

and aphids resistant

genes into existing

varieties by

hybridization

M. Haruna

A. Gloria

Yaw Owusu

I. Memunatu

Dec. 2018 30 lines with

aphids, striga

and bacterial

blight

resistance

screened and

advanced to

Multilocation

testing.

Activity 3.3 Testing for release

Milestone Specific

interventions

Responsibility Date of

completion

Output

At least 60 to 80

new, improved

breeding lines

with good

performance

evaluated at 4

locations in N/G

with a minimum

of 30%

participation by

women farmers.

1. Conduct adaptive

trials on 45-60

advanced breeding

lines with good

performance

Nyankpala.

2. Multi-location

testing of selected

good performing

lines at Nyankpala,

Damongo, Yendi

and Manga.

3. On-farm

participatory

evaluation with full

farmers'

participation

including women

farmers on

selecting preferred

lines.

M. Haruna

A. Gloria

Yaw Owusu

I. Memunatu

AEAs/MoFA

Private seed

Companies

Farmers

Dec. 2016 45-60

breeding

lines

developed

with 30%

women

farmers’

involvement


Milestone Specific interventions Responsibility Date of

completion

Output

FPVS trials

conducted with

200

participants

and not less

than 60 women.

1. Identification of

communities for FPVS

trials

2. Conduct FPVS

trials with 200

participants and not

less than 60 women

farmers participation

M. Haruna

A.Gloria

Yaw Owusu

I. Memunatu

AEAs/MoFA

Private seed

Companies

Farmers

Aug 2016 10 FPVS

trials

conducte

d in all 3

northern

regions


Milestone Specific

interventions


completion

Output

Identify Five

to 10 new

varieties for

promotion

to on-farm

evaluations

Conduct on-

farm

evaluation of

5-10 high

performing

lines selected

from FPVS

trials .

M. Haruna

A.Gloria

Yaw Owusu

I. Memunatu

July 2016 Five to 10

new

varieties

identified

for

promotion

to on-farm

evaluation


Milestone Specific

interventions


completion

Output

Nutrition

profiling of all

candidate

release

varieties to

ensure

nutritional

status equal to

or better than

available

standards

SARI will

collaborates with

the Food Research

Institute to profile

the nutritional

attributes of 8

released varieties

M. Haruna

A.Gloria

CSIR-FRI

Dec. 2016 Nutritional

profile of 8

released

varieties

profiled

Activity 3.4: Best Bet Varieties - Farmers using improved cowpea cultivars and ICM

practices and realising higher yields

Milestone Specific

interventions


completion

Output

At least 40-60

demonstratio

ns carried out

in all 3

regions of

northern

Ghana

The project will

collaborate

with other

projects e.g.

COSP, N2Africa

to leverage

activities to

create synergy

and increase

number of

demonstrations

M. Haruna

A.Gloria

Yaw Owusu

I. Memunatu

AEAs/MoFA

Private seed

Companies

Farmers

Dec. 2016 60-80

demonstration

s will be

carried out in

all target

districts

Activity 3.4: Best Bet Varieties - Farmers using improved cowpea cultivars and ICM

practices and realising higher yields

Milestone Specific

interventions


completion

Output

At least

2,000 kg

breeder

seed of

released

varieties to

be produced

per year.

The project

will

sustainably

intensify

Breeder

seed

production

of 4

released

varieties

M. Haruna

A.Gloria

Yaw Owusu

I. Memunatu

Dec. 2016 At least

300 kg

Breeder

seed

produced

THANK YOU FOR YOUR

ATTENTION

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