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Recommendations to improve the
demonstration activities
The Agrodealers must be advised to implement their
demonstration sites near a main road, accessible during
the entire rainy season. This will encourage more people
to visit and learn from the site.
Agrodealers used their relationships in the communities to
involve the traditional and administrative authorities with
regard to the guided tours. The events were sometimes
announced on local radio to inform the farmers. This
assisted in gaining attendance from the government
agricultural services and farmers.
Agrodealers kept in touch and shared information by
telephone and on WhatsApp. This sparked their interest
to the demonstration activities.
Demo activities are very important to educate
farmers to improve their farming methods by buying
good fertilizers and seeds. I’m aware that there a few
challenges, but I think because it’s the beginning. We
will improve with time and get more committed. A lot
of farmers have started asking about the fertilizers
and seeds we used and we believe this will increase the
demand of these inputs.
Yamine Jean Marie Tangongosse, general manager of
ETW Agri Invest, president of AGRODIA
Partners and/or donors who supported the work:
Yara International
Contact person
Nana-Aisha Mohammed
West Africa Project Implementation Lead
nmohammed@afap-partnership.org
