Collaboration between ICARDA projects and linkages to IFAD investment portfolio for enhancing seeds quality and forage production through entrepreneurship and farmers associations. Some examples from ICARDA activities in Tunisia

Published Date
March 01, 2020
Type
Report
Collaboration between ICARDA projects and linkages to IFAD investment portfolio for enhancing seeds quality and forage production through entrepreneurship and farmers associations. Some examples from ICARDA activities in Tunisia
Authors:
Aymen Frija
Zied Idoudi, Udo Rudiger, Mourad Rekik

Small scale farmers in Tunisia are often using their own farm seeds to produce forage crops like barley, oat, and vetch. The mobile seed cleaning and treatment unit and the local grinder will allow farmers of farmer associations to improve their farm seeds and forage production.

Citation:
Aymen Frija, Zied Idoudi, Udo Rudiger, Mourad Rekik. (1/3/2020). Collaboration between ICARDA projects and linkages to IFAD investment portfolio for enhancing seeds quality and forage production through entrepreneurship and farmers associations. Some examples from ICARDA activities in Tunisia. Lebanon: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).
Keywords:
opportunities for women
empowering rural women
forage production
scaling forage
clca systems
farmers' associations
youth entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship
machinery