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Ensure timely mobilization, recruitment, and registration of farmers for barley and sorghum growing

Ensure that timely land preparation, planting, weeding, harvesting is carried out as per recommended practice

Ensure soil, moisture conservation and crop rotation practices are observed and carried out by farmers

Ensure that only pure seed supplied by NBL is planted by farmers and at the correct seed rate and NOT any other

Identify the acreage and corresponding quantities of inputs that will suffice your area of operation

Ensure that herbicide, fungicide, and insecticides are applied at the correct time, correct rate

Monitor the crop throughout the entire growth period

In case of any abnormality e.g., disease occurrence, insect infestation then advises farmers on proper and timely corrective measures to be done

Promote adaption of Machinery i.e., threshers and planters use among barley/sorghum farmers

Dissemination of new farming technologies to farmers

Assist in the recovery of the costs of inputs advanced to farmers

Coach farmers to manage farming as a business

Keep a database tracking seed distribution, seed uptake, actual planted acreage and actual crop yield

Timely monthly reporting of Sustainability goal activities