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Farmers
in the GAP region have benefited immensely from the GAP-ICARDA collaboration.
Some of the farmers involved in the demonstrations now produce and
sell quality seed of the improved crop varieties. The project team
intends to conduct more on-farm demonstrations to consolidate the
gains of the project and introduce more crop varieties and improved
technologies.
Village-based seed enterprises will be established in the project
area to produce and market seed of improved varieties of major food
and feed crops. More courses and study tours will be organized to
meet the training needs of farmers. The community-based and participatory
research projects being conducted in other areas will be introduced,
and an impact assessment of the project will be conducted.
There is a need to further survey the land forms and land use/land
cover, collect more specimens, especially in areas with major problems
of soil erosion and degradation, and develop a more comprehensive
database of the species. The work on ruminant feeding systems will
be expanded, while further diversifying the cereal-based cropping
systems to improve the rangeland rehabilitation efforts.
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