IPSR Innovation Profile Brief for “Public Private Partnership to Foster Availability of Forage Seed Mixtures in Tunisia”

In Tunisia, some of the major constraints in crop livestock production systems are monoculture of cereals leading to poor soil health and lack of nutrient rich forages for the key small ruminant activity. Forage seeds were insufficient, and no national seed company had been engaged in forage seed p...

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Autores principales: M'hamed, Hatem Cheikh, Ben Youssef, Salah, Rekik, Mourad, Frija, Aymen, Idoudi, Zied, Zaiem, Anis, Khorchani, Mohamed Abdelhak, Rudiger, Udo
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Publicado: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135795
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author M'hamed, Hatem Cheikh
Ben Youssef, Salah
Rekik, Mourad
Frija, Aymen
Idoudi, Zied
Zaiem, Anis
Khorchani, Mohamed Abdelhak
Rudiger, Udo
author_browse Ben Youssef, Salah
Frija, Aymen
Idoudi, Zied
Khorchani, Mohamed Abdelhak
M'hamed, Hatem Cheikh
Rekik, Mourad
Rudiger, Udo
Zaiem, Anis
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Ben Youssef, Salah
Rekik, Mourad
Frija, Aymen
Idoudi, Zied
Zaiem, Anis
Khorchani, Mohamed Abdelhak
Rudiger, Udo
author_sort M'hamed, Hatem Cheikh
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description In Tunisia, some of the major constraints in crop livestock production systems are monoculture of cereals leading to poor soil health and lack of nutrient rich forages for the key small ruminant activity. Forage seeds were insufficient, and no national seed company had been engaged in forage seed production as this wasn't considered beneficial to them. In 2019, ICARDA and the National Institute of Agronomic Research of Tunisia – INRAT started a facilitation process for a PPP through cooperation and engaging with COTUGRAIN, a private seed production and commercialization company. The partnership is set around the commercialization of some forage crop seeds, in addition to some forage mixtures (Vetch-Oat, Vetch-Triticale, Vetch-Oat - Triticale), pre-defined and advised by the research team composed of INRAT. Different formula for forage seed mixture were tested under different contexts, and recommendations were provided accordingly to the private company COTUGRAIN, to tailor its seed mixtures products for commercialization. More than 150 tons of forage mixture seeds were sold in 2021. More than twenty (20) seed multiplication contracts (forage seeds multiplicator farmers) were established with an area of 300 ha within a three years’ timeframe.
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spelling CGSpace1357952026-01-22T02:05:09Z IPSR Innovation Profile Brief for “Public Private Partnership to Foster Availability of Forage Seed Mixtures in Tunisia” M'hamed, Hatem Cheikh Ben Youssef, Salah Rekik, Mourad Frija, Aymen Idoudi, Zied Zaiem, Anis Khorchani, Mohamed Abdelhak Rudiger, Udo seeds seed multiplication forage vetch (vicia spp.) oat (avena sativa) triticale fenugreek public private partnership scaling forage mixtures In Tunisia, some of the major constraints in crop livestock production systems are monoculture of cereals leading to poor soil health and lack of nutrient rich forages for the key small ruminant activity. Forage seeds were insufficient, and no national seed company had been engaged in forage seed production as this wasn't considered beneficial to them. In 2019, ICARDA and the National Institute of Agronomic Research of Tunisia – INRAT started a facilitation process for a PPP through cooperation and engaging with COTUGRAIN, a private seed production and commercialization company. The partnership is set around the commercialization of some forage crop seeds, in addition to some forage mixtures (Vetch-Oat, Vetch-Triticale, Vetch-Oat - Triticale), pre-defined and advised by the research team composed of INRAT. Different formula for forage seed mixture were tested under different contexts, and recommendations were provided accordingly to the private company COTUGRAIN, to tailor its seed mixtures products for commercialization. More than 150 tons of forage mixture seeds were sold in 2021. More than twenty (20) seed multiplication contracts (forage seeds multiplicator farmers) were established with an area of 300 ha within a three years’ timeframe. 2023-11-24 2023-12-21T17:26:42Z 2023-12-21T17:26:42Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135795 en Limited Access application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas Hatem Cheikh M'hamed, Salah Ben Youssef, Mourad Rekik, Aymen Frija, Zied Idoudi, Anis Zaiem, Mohamed Abdelhak Khorchani, Udo Rudiger. (24/11/2023). IPSR Innovation Profile Brief for “Public Private Partnership to Foster Availability of Forage Seed Mixtures in Tunisia”. Beirut, Lebanon: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).
spellingShingle seeds
seed multiplication
forage
vetch (vicia spp.)
oat (avena sativa)
triticale
fenugreek
public private partnership
scaling forage mixtures
M'hamed, Hatem Cheikh
Ben Youssef, Salah
Rekik, Mourad
Frija, Aymen
Idoudi, Zied
Zaiem, Anis
Khorchani, Mohamed Abdelhak
Rudiger, Udo
IPSR Innovation Profile Brief for “Public Private Partnership to Foster Availability of Forage Seed Mixtures in Tunisia”
title IPSR Innovation Profile Brief for “Public Private Partnership to Foster Availability of Forage Seed Mixtures in Tunisia”
title_full IPSR Innovation Profile Brief for “Public Private Partnership to Foster Availability of Forage Seed Mixtures in Tunisia”
title_fullStr IPSR Innovation Profile Brief for “Public Private Partnership to Foster Availability of Forage Seed Mixtures in Tunisia”
title_full_unstemmed IPSR Innovation Profile Brief for “Public Private Partnership to Foster Availability of Forage Seed Mixtures in Tunisia”
title_short IPSR Innovation Profile Brief for “Public Private Partnership to Foster Availability of Forage Seed Mixtures in Tunisia”
title_sort ipsr innovation profile brief for public private partnership to foster availability of forage seed mixtures in tunisia
topic seeds
seed multiplication
forage
vetch (vicia spp.)
oat (avena sativa)
triticale
fenugreek
public private partnership
scaling forage mixtures
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135795
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