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Mobile seed cleaning and treatment units as business opportunities for farmer cooperatives in Tunisia
1. Cooperative Seeds
cleaned (t)
Seeds
treated (t)
Return
(TD)
Total
benefit (TD)
No of
users
El Amen 24.2 0 847 315 320
El Feleh 4.7 42.6 3,455 -13 200
Ettaaouen 14.6 131.1 9469 1467 120
Meliene 22.5 0 450 225 150
Total 66.0 173.6 14,221 1,994 790
Average 16.5 43.4 3,555 498.5 198
NUTRITION & FOOD
SECURITY
§ Innovative mobile machines have already served up to 800
farmers in four cooperatives.
§ Mobile units help to improve farm seed quality, hence
increase crop yield and income.
§ Mobile units reduce workload of rural women.
Mobile seed cleaning and treatment
units as business opportunities for
farmer cooperatives in Tunisia
Context
• Many small-scale farmers use manually cleaned
farm seeds for planting.
• Mobile seed cleaning units can improve seed
quality and increase yields.
• Mobile seed cleaning units can provide
additional income for farmer cooperatives.
Our innovative approach
• Co-develop the seed cleaning units with INGC
and “Atelier de Construction Arfaoui Taher”.
• Subsidize four units for farmer cooperatives.
• Train and coach coop farmers in use of seed
cleaning unit.
Future steps
• Develop and supply the four cooperatives with different
sized sieves for the cleaning unit so they can clean legume
fodder crop seeds like faba beans, vetch and chickpea.
• Monitor and coach cooperatives in business development
and scale the technology and business model.
Partners
• OEP (Pasture and Livestock Office)
• INGC (National Institute of Important Crops)
• Atelier de construction Arfaoui Taher
Outcomes
• Four cooperatives in Western Tunisia cleaned 66 tons and
treated 174 tons of cereal seeds in 2 months.
• Almost 800 farmers benefited from this innovative
technology.
• The low average benefit of about 500 TD (175 US$) per
cooperative is due to the marketing strategy (low service
price to attract more members as customers).
Udo Rudiger, ICARDA
u.rudiger@cgiar.org
The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock thanks all donors & organizations which
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Feed and Forages Flagship
Traditional manual
seed cleaning
Training to use the unit