The project results include a 768% increase in average land area under vegetable production in Nigeria and 161% in Benin.
This Annex to the larger project “Synergizing fertilizer micro-dosing and indigenous vegetable production to enhance food and economic security of West African farmers (CIFSRF Phase 2)” reports on the Microveg scaling up team.
This Annex describes project outputs.
The report aims to evaluate the impact of MICROVEG intervention, which is being implemented through the Innovation Platform (IP) systems in 51 Local Government Areas/Districts of two countries, Nigeria and Benin.
This annex answers questions that arose from baseline reports regarding: educational level of farmers; land acquisition; land area under vegetable cultivation; current use of fertilizers by farmers and use of irrigation; ease of water supply and a
The new WebGIS platform allows visualization of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data compiled from online sources as well project research.
The MICROVEG project synergises innovations from two completed projects, Nigeria-Canada Indigenous Vegetables Project (NiCanVeg) and the Integrated Nutrient and Water Management in the Sahel (INuWaM).
More than 50,000 farmers in Nigeria and Benin are helping another 200,000 farmers learn how to use less fertilizer to produce higher yields and better quality vegetables.
Response Surface Methodology was used in this study to determine optimal conditions for the production of high quality bread enriched with vegetable powder.