Training of farmers in irrigated agronomy, land and soil improvements in lot 2: tochi irrigation scheme, in oyam district
This is a two-year consultancy between the Ministry of Water and Environment and Africa 2000 Network & Ideal Development Consults Ltd is under the Farm Income Enhancement and Forest Conservation Programme 2 (FIEFOC-2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tochi Irrigation Scheme is located in Oyam District. Oyam District is bordered by Gulu District to the North, Pader District to the NorthEast, Kole District to the East, Apac District to the South, Kiryandongo District to the Southwest and Nwoya District to the west. Tochi Irrigation scheme utilises water from the earthen embankment on River Tochi. The scheme has a potential of 1,000 hectares with the initial target of 500 hectares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Objective of the assignment<\/strong> Training of farmers in irrigated agronomy, land and soil improvements in lot 2: tochi irrigation scheme, in oyam districtThis is a two-year consultancy between the Ministry of Water and Environment and Africa 2000 Network & Ideal Development Consults Ltd is under the Farm Income Enhancement and Forest Conservation Programme 2 (FIEFOC-2). Tochi Irrigation Scheme is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":715,"template":"","categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-completed-projects"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a2n.org.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a2n.org.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a2n.org.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/projects"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a2n.org.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a2n.org.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a2n.org.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a2n.org.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
i. To train the farmers at the proposed irrigation schemes in irrigation agronomic practices to increase production and productivity.
ii. To transfer knowledge from applied research in irrigated agronomy to the farmers.
iii. Support demonstration of on farm irrigated agronomic practices.
1.4 Scope of the assignment
The Consultant will support training to the farmers in the irrigation scheme. The specific tasks are;
i. Responsible for and Participate in setting up Irrigation Demonstration Sites with in the scheme (IDS)
ii. Provide professional advice on effective and efficient utilization of water for increase rice production and other selected\/preferred crops under irrigation
iii. Provide close hands on agronomic training in agronomic practices for all crops on irrigation scheme.
iv. Promote soil fertility management with in the irrigation scheme.
v. Carry out training on water use efficiency in relation to the crop productivity output per unit acreage with in the irrigation scheme.
vi. Train the farmers on farm records including ICT applications to ease tracking on the production progress seasonally.
vii. Promote gender mainstreaming in agriculture activities.
viii. Carry out documentation of the lessons learnt during the agronomy support period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"