Production & Marketing
Mission statement
The new strategic direction is to have a well-coordinated and pluralistic agricultural extension services delivery system which will change farmers from subsistence farming to commercialized farming in order to increase the farmer’s income.
Vision statement
Prosperous farmers and other agricultural actors for socio-economic transformation and welfare of the population
Mission statement
Promote the application of appropriate information, knowledge and technological innovations for commercialization of Agriculture
Objectives
To empower farmers and other value chain actors to effectively participate &benefits equitability from Agriculture extension
To ensure a well-coordinated delivery of Agriculture extension services to increase efficiency &effectiveness.
Disseminate appropriate technologies to all categories of farmers to other beneficiaries in the Agricultural sector.
Physical achievements
- Operation wealthy creation program, inputs have been distributed to farmers which include; improved seeds of beans, maize, passion fruits, oranges and mangoes.
- 52 Dairy cattle have been given to farmers doing
- 8280 Kg of improved seeds were distributed to 430 farmer-beneficiaries
- 4100 Kg of improved beans were distributed to 186 farmers
- Vaccination of dog was done
- Constraints, challenges and recommendation
NO |
Constraints –emerging issues |
Recommendation |
Expected outcome results |
Responsible officer |
1 |
Disease outbreaks in crops and livestock e g Army worms in maize, FMD, rabies in dogs |
Regular disease surveillance and vaccination of animals against those notifiable diseases |
Reduce the disease incidences in the area |
Agriculture Officer, Veterinary Officer |
2 |
Fake Agro –chemicals for crops and Animals |
Regular inspection of agro –chemical stores and shops within the Municipality |
Reduce fake drugs on the market |
Agriculture Officer, Veterinary Officer |
3 |
Animal roistering within the municipal council which spread disease and causing it difficult to control diseases |
Establishment of pounding grounds and putting up a bylaw to control the movement of stray animals |
First of all this pounding grounds will generate revenue for the disease and disease control in animals |
Production Officer AAHO |
4 |
Un realization of budget for the department |
LRR is always not realized as budgeted so you find that certain activities cannot be implemented due to funds |
Not implementing some activities which were planned |
Production Coordinator |
5 |
Climate changes for instance prolonged drought or rains |
Start to establish small scale irrigation site demonstration |
Farmer training in water harvesting and small irrigation methods |
Agriculture officer |
Production
Estimated number of farming households in the Municipality -70,780 farming households
Production components in the Municipality
- Agriculture
- Fisheries
- Livestock husbandry
Agricultural systems used by the farmers
For Livestock systems; Animals reared include Cattle, Goats, Sheep, Pigs, Layers and broilers in poultry and kroilers
- Zero grazing System
- Semi intensive system
- A few still on Communal grazing i.e Extensive farming
- Pigs are on Intensive farming system
- Deep litter system in poultry
- Battery cage system
- Backyard system
Fish farming systems include:
- Extensive fish farming
- Semi-intensive
- Intensive farming
Is the farming Commercial or Subsistence, we have both commercial farming and subsistence where they grow only food for home consumption.
The main crops grown in the Municipality include; Banana, Cassava, Maize, Vegetables e.g. Tomatoes, cabbage, Ntula, eggplant, lettuce, green pepper, okra, dodo Makati, Sukuma wiiki, spinach
Fruits include Oranges, Mangoes, pineapples, passion fruit, and guavas
Challenges
- Budget cuts during the work plan implementation
- Disease and pest outbreaks in both crops and animal e.g. Army worm, FMD, LSD, Rabies, New castle in poultry CBPP, African swine fever in pig.
- Loitering Animals in the municipality (Stray dogs &animals
- Lack of legally constituted management committees at landing sites
- Compliance to the registration &licensing requirements by fishers is still low
- Changing farmers mindset to adopt new technologies is not easy