1. Cereal Systems Initiative for
South Asia in Bangladesh
(‘CSISA-BD‘)
A focus on Alignment opportunities
between AAS and CSISA-BD

2. An Overview of the Key Interventions and
Activities of WorldFish under CSISA-BD
RRF, Jessore
6 - 7 April 2013
Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA)
in Bangladesh

3. Overview to CSISA
CSISA-BD Goal: Increased household income, food security, and
livelihoods in impoverished and agriculturally dependent regions of
Bangladesh
We work to -
i.Maximizing farming “Income and Productivity” through improved
Technologies and Varieties in Agro–Aqua systems
ii. Improved nutrition, dietary diversity, additional income and women
empowerment
What is Hub?
A geographic region - having fairly similar biophysical characteristics,
production systems, constrains and potential intervention points.

5. Specific Project Objectives
Objective 1
Dissemination and adoption of improved varieties, production
technologies, and management practices for cereal and fish systems in
order to improve productivity, income, and resilience to risk.
Objective 2
Adaptive research trials to test, validate, and refine newly developed
agronomic practices for cereals and aquaculture technologies, varieties
Objective 3
Capacity building for researchers, extension workers, and service
providers from the public, private, and NGO sectors to enable the rapid
dissemination and adoption of improved technologies and management
approaches.

6. Specific Project Objectives
Objective 4
Socioeconomic and farming systems analysis for technology targeting,
deployment, and improvement of market linkages and livelihood
systems.
Objective 5
Development of innovative information delivery mechanisms, including
robust decision support tools that integrate producer information,
market prices, weather, and risk in formats that are simple to use and
accessible to all agricultural stakeholders.

7. • Dissemination and Adoption of high-yielding and
stress-tolerant varieties and improved technologies
• Test / validate / refine of sustainable management
practices & improved varieties and technologies
• Strategic partnerships (public + private sectors) to
increase the scale and longevity of interventions
• Strengthen market linkages and business development
– improved technologies alone are not sufficient
• Capacity building
Key CSISA-BD Activities

8. Vision of Success
By end of 5 years CSISA-BD will reach:By end of 5 years CSISA-BD will reach:
– 60,000 direct clients with net annual income60,000 direct clients with net annual income
increase $ 350increase $ 350
– 300,000 indirect clients will participate through300,000 indirect clients will participate through
training, participatory adoption and adaptivetraining, participatory adoption and adaptive
trials, linkage events, exchange visits, stakeholdertrials, linkage events, exchange visits, stakeholder
consultations…consultations…
– Around 1 million rural hhs will be benefitedAround 1 million rural hhs will be benefited
through linkages and synergiesthrough linkages and synergies

9. a. Pond system: Focus on commercial production
b. Gher system: Focus on “Gher” based improved
aquaculture – agriculture farming system (Alternate
and Concurrent)
c. Household based system: Focus on homestead based
small and seasonal pond and land area
WorldFish intervention in systems

10.  Increase efficiency and promotion of improved
technologies and varieties – as appropriate
 Reduced risk, short-duration, high productivity
and income, market oriented, Gender and
Nutrition focused
 Partnership with public – private sectors,
institutes
Intervention principle

11. Private Sector
Seed/Feed/Traders
CSISA-BDCSISA-BD
Direct Client
Indirect Client
GO Agencies
(BFRI / DOF / BARC)
NGO / Association
Private Sector
Seed/Feed/Traders
Direct ClientDirect Client
Indirect ClientIndirect Client
Dissemination / Scale-out Process

12. Formed “Direct Client Group” on specific technologies
“Training” “Exchange Visit” “Regular Coaching”
“Refresher training”
Participatory Adoption Trials (PAT)
“Farming community and market actors follow progress
& final result enhance adoption and scale-out”
Linkage Events and
Stakeholder
consultation workshop
Dissemination Strategies
Mass media, Printed
materials, capacity
building of service
providers

13. Dissemination and Adoption Activities

14. Fine Tuning of Potential Technologies/Varieties

15. Market price survey: weekly price data collection from 40
rural and urban wholesale and retail markets in all 6
CSISA hubs.
Production economics of key aquaculture production
systems in hubs provide an accurate benchmark of the
productivity and margins for aquaculture systems
Survey of households on employment generation
associated with 06 key aquaculture systems promoted
by CSISA-BD to understand economic and employment
multipliers and capacity to alleviate poverty
Socio – Economic Studies

16. How long we assist the trained group/village-
 Intensively one year by training, PAT, ART, Coaching , Linkage Events
 During 2nd
year Refreshers, Sharing Trails results by Linkage Events
Who are our partners and their role:
 NGOs - Select project clients, organize events, provide
credit; BRAC, TMSS, JCF, SSS, BS, SDC, BDS, Renaissance.
 Private sectors – Value chain actors linkages for
information, inputs, market
 Public - DoF, BFRI, BARI, BARC, Universities
 International: AVRDC, AIT, CIFA
CSISA-WF Activity Strategy and Partners

17. CSISA-WF system productivity
Increased production of Aquaculture- Agriculture in Gher SystemIncreased production of Aquaculture- Agriculture in Gher System
 Boro rice followed by Prawn/Tilapia/Carp fish- intensifying
from one crop to two crops of fish & Horticulture on Dyke
 Shrimp followed by T-Aman
Freshwater Prawn –Galda Dyke cropping in Gher system

18. Increased production of Pond Aquaculture & Horticulture on DykeIncreased production of Pond Aquaculture & Horticulture on Dyke
 Improved farming of Tilapia & Horticulture on Dyke.
 Improved Carp-Shing poly culture & Horticulture on Dyke
 Increased efficiency of high density commercial aquaculture
Carp polyculture Linkage Event
CSISA-WF System Productivity

19. Increased production of fish through cage aquacultureIncreased production of fish through cage aquaculture
 Improved food fish production of suitable species
(Tilapia) in Nylon net cages setting in Canal/River
Feeding in cageCage preparation
CSISA-WF System Productivity

20. Increased productivity of homestead ponds & lands for nutrient-rich fishIncreased productivity of homestead ponds & lands for nutrient-rich fish
and vegetables for family consumption and additional incomeand vegetables for family consumption and additional income
- Household based pond aquaculture (polyculture of carps /
tilapia with micronutrient rich small fish “Mola”) and
vegetables (including Vit-A rich orange fleshed sweet potato)
farming by involving women members of the family.
Mola collection for HH aquaculture Farmers Training
CSISA-WF System Productivity

21. Farming Household Male & Female (%) Direct Client
During Year 1 & 2

23. Cost -Benefit Analysis Technologies wise (Based on Demo Record Book-2011)
Endline Baseline
Technologies
Prod
MT/Ha
Prod
MT/Ha
Production
Cost/ha
(Tk)
Return/
Ha
(Tk)
Gross
Margin/
Ha (Tk)
BCR
Household based pond aquaculture
(n=2)
4.25 1.53 227899 441718 213820 1.94
Improved carp polyculture in pond and
horticulture on dyke (n=31)
4.28 1.60 216253 414217 197964 1.92
Improved carp-shing polyculture in
Pond and horticulture on dyke (n=6)
7.17 2.55 432249 850639 418390 1.97
Improved farming of fresh water prawn
and carps in gher and horticulture on
dyke (n=16)
1.72 0.93 157101 419084 261984 2.67
Improved farming of fresh water prawn
and carps in pond and horticulture on
dyke (n=6)
2.20 0.45 219357 458505 239148 2.09
Improved farming of tilapia in gher and
horticulture on dyke (n=5)
3.04 2.57 189840 227566 37726 1.20
Improved farming of tilapia in pond and
horticulture on dyke (n=4)
7.47 1.65 309239 627687 318449 2.03
Improved rice-fish farming with dyke
cropping (n=10)
1.32 0.88 59706 121931 62225 2.04
Improved shrimp farming by stocking
PCR tested PL in Gher (n=4)
0.43 0.32 94056 207214 113158 2.20

24. Activities Up to Year - 2 Target Year - 3
No. of District 20 ??
No. of Upazila 66 ??
No. of Union 191 ??
No. of direct client 10,177 (31% F) 5,500
No. of indirect client 12,787 (32.7% F) 13,815
No. Aqua demo. 390 220
OFSP & ST demo. 589 no. 720 no.
No. fish hatchery 30 no. 30 no. cont’d
No. of ART 153 13 (new)
Some Coverage in Numbers

25. Dissemination and Adoption Activities
Photo Presentation

26. PRA (FGD) with villagers

27. Farmers Training

28. Farmers Training

29. Participatory Adoption Trial’s Result

30. Linkage Event

31. Stakeholder workshop

32. Farmer’s Sharing in Workshop

33. Sharing Knowledge of Adoption
Trial

34. Linkage with Input Dealers

35. Linkage with Fish hatchery

36. Lessons learnt
 Increased production to significant level considering
resilience and market price
 Lack of quality inputs e.g. Fingerling, PL, feed mainly
 Improved technologies generating high production but
require high investment…..linking finance…Adoption??
 Still many farmers are far behind from any extension
supports like modern technologies.
 Dependency on natural rainfall / water source is
increasingly limiting aquaculture.
 Exchange visit is very effective means for rapid
transformation the technologies.

37. Lessons learnt – cont’d
 Collaborative approach by 03 CG centers - CSISA
village: generating effective results
 Lack of participation in planning of trials, farmers
ownership found less during implementation
 Only good training course is not enough for effective
farmer training – require high quality trainer, planning..
 Linkage Events seems effective for secondary adoption –
for CSISA indirect clients
 Participatory demo/trials is initially hard to convince
but very good for ownership and accountability
 HH based technologies for nutrition, income and women
empowerment created huge interest …

38. What does alignment mean for CSISA ?
Why? Implication? Workload?
Outcome? Financial? Human resources?
• Geographical and Clients – Scale-out ?
• Improved Technologies and varieties ?
• Dissemination and implementation Strategy ?
• Improved Nutrition and Women empowerment initiatives –
• Communication and partnership –
• Research issues –
What and How Alignment would translate for field implementation ?

39. AAS – WorldFish, CSISA-BD
Alignment ??

40. - For Challenged resources like – shaded pond, saline
affected homestead, water logged area??
- Reducing cost of production – cost feed? Others?
- Development of aqua-machineries and linking with
local service provider – AFP, Bottom cleaner…
Alignment for Farmers Need??
AFP trial Pond bottom cleaner