Nepal Best Practice Exchange - Ginger Competitiveness Project

Local Industry Development in Agriculture Regions by Strengthening Capacity of Management and Marketing (B)

Best Practice Exchange: Enhancing Sanitary and Phytosanitary Capacity of Nepalese Ginger Exports through Public-Private Partnerships

Arun G C Ministry of Agricultural Development Government of Nepal 2016

Outline of the Presentation

Results Content of the program

Objective of the program Problems or issues

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Problems or issues

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Overview of Ginger Sector

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Overview of Ginger Sector  Indicators used for prioritization: 1. Current Export Performance 2. Market demand condition 3. Domestic supply capacity 4. Potential Socio-economic impact

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World Ginger Sector

800000 700000

500000 400000 300000

Year (AD)

2011 2012

China

Nepal

Thailand

Indonesia

2010

Cameroon

2009

Japan

2008

Bangladesh

0

Nigeria

100000

India

200000

Taiwan

Quantity (MT)

600000

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Overview of Ginger Sector

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SWOT Analysis of Nepalese Ginger Sector

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Marketing Channel in Nepal Indian Retailers

Commission Agents/Importers

Farmers

Collectors/Roa d-head traders

District traders

Local Wholesaler

Indian Wholesalers

Exporters/ Processors

Wholesalers/Importe rs (Abroad)

Local Retailer 9

Price of Ginger 900 800

USD/MT

700 600 500 400 300 200 100

0 2003

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2009

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2011

2012

Years (AD)

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Project Overview Project Symbol: Starting date: NTE Date: 6 Sept. 2015 STDF: MTF/NEP/068/STF 7 June 2012 (STDF) EIF: MTF /NEP/068/OPS

(Two components)

31 Dec 2015 (EIF Comp.)

Total Project Budget (US$): STDF- 462,144 EIF711,550 NGPTA- 140,000 MoAD- 60,000

Goal – Income generation to rural poor. Objective – 'Develop ginger value chain' with interventions • supporting farmers and traders in improving quality of fresh ginger supply for export and • to build state's SPS-capacity on ginger export 5-outputs 11-Activities (3+2+3+1+2)

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Project Overview….. Project Outputs 1. Facilities design, construction and operation 2. Training/ Training materials development 3. Supply of quality ginger rhizomes (seed) 4. Market (SPS requirement) study 5. Capacity to negotiate/comply with SPS requirement

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Ginger Production Status

Source: FAOSTAT, 2014

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Project Overview Activity 1.1 Design ginger washing / processing facility Activity 1.2 Build ginger washing / processing facility Activity 1.3 Deliver hands-on training and set up systems required for effective management and operation of the facilities Activity 2.1 Develop ginger growing manual/ training materials Activity 2.2 Deliver trainings to Trainers, farmers and other value chain actors Activity 2.3 Establish ginger demonstration / multiplication plots Activity 3.1 Devise and implement system for provision of post-harvest control measures (inputs) Activity 3.2 Obtain improved cultivars Activity 4.1 Study on regional and international markets Activity 5.1 Traceability /reducing freq. of pesticide residue testing 16 Activity 5.2 Bilateral meetings on SPS issues

Project Area

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Project Overview FFSs in the target districts

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Training Material Developed • Ginger cultivation Hand Book (Nepali) • Ginger FFS Manual (Nepali)

• Ginger cultivation farm inventory (Nepali) • Ginger FFS operation guidelines • Ginger FFS operation curriculum • Some of the FFS have prepared and played drama on GAP (Nepali)

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Support to the farmers 1. Seed rhizome distributed Kapurkot 1- 650 kg Makawanpure local - 15 mt and 1.2 mt Local cultivar - 10 mt 2. Quality seed production and storage sustained locally; above 160 hectare area under seed production 3. Farm studies on cultivar performance 4. Cultivar selection and adoption by farmers 5. Support package delivered for inputs and FFSoperation

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Ginger Market Study 1. ANSAB-Nepal - India and Bangladesh 2. SAMARTH-NMDP (DFID-project) with Promar Consulting (Japan) performed the study in Japan, UAE and the Netherlands 3. The studies followed similar studyframework .

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Achievements

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Achievements

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Major Learning 1. Quality improvement: 1. Pit storage of ginger seed rhizome is proven viable 2. Cultivars and seed replacement efforts should be continued along with improve management practices 2. Income generation: Ginger is high cash generating to farmers. However, rhizome rot and rhizome fly have been major harassments to farmers

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Major Learning 3. Disease/ pest management:

RR is manageable through cultural practices. Proper land selection, Management of drainage and shade Seed treatment and soil drench with bio-fungicide /fungicide /bactericide Discouraged mother-rhizome harvesting with proper seed size (?) Fertilizer would be replaced with organic manure Aug-Sept critical period of rhizome rot and fly attacks Wide-spaced maize and sesbania intercropping in furrowspace performed good None of the cultivars tried is tolerable Organic mulching (broom grass), raised bed and seed placement above normal ground surface helped rhizome 26 escape from water stagnation

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Any Query?

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धन्यवाद

(Dhanyabad)

ありがとう

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