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Transcript of Africa Wide Aflasafe program
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Africa-Wide Aflasafe Program
Ranajit Bandyopadhyay IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria
Aflatoxin Awareness and Aflasafe Stakeholders’
Consultative Workshop, Lusaka, 28 April 2015
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• IITA
• USDA-ARS
• BMGF/USAID
• Doreo Partners
• National institutions (ZARI, NISIR)
Strong Partnership
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Nigeria: Efficacy on Maize
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2009 2010 2011 2012
Aflasafe™ Control
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2009 2010 2011 2012
82 94 83 86 82 93 89 90
51 14 199 38 51 14 166 38 Fields (#)
Less (%)
At Harvest After Storage
*All means of aflasafe and control pairs significantly different; Student’s t-test (P<0.05)
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Aflato
xin
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Area Sample Treatment Mean
Aflatox (ppb)
Reduct. (%)
Mean Aflatox (ppb)
Reduct. (%)
Mean Aflatox (ppb)
Reduct. (%)
Diourbel
Harvest Treated 1.9
93 6.6
87 3.7
82 Control 29.7 50.1 20.3
Storage Treated 4.4
86 2.1
91 6.9
81 Control 31.3 22.1 35.5
Nioro
Harvest Treated 4.4
75 5.6
76 5.4
90 Control 17.6 23.1 55.7
Storage Treated 3.5
95 2.8
94 11.5
84 Control 52.1 46.7 72.5
*All means of aflasafe treated and control pairs significantly different; Student’s t-test (P<0.05)
Senegal: Efficacy of aflasafe SN01
2010 (n=40) 2011 (n=34) 2012 (n=71)
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Aflasafe Efficacy Trials (2012/13)
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5.9
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1 8.5
Maize Groundnut
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20.0
40.0
60.0
80.0
100.0
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pb
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Control
Aflasafe
83.9% reduction
88.8% reduction
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Aflasafe Efficacy Trials (2013/14)
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74% reduction
96% reduction
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Product Development in Africa
Products ready for registration
Products under testing in farmers’ fields Strain development in progress
Senegal
Burkina
Faso Ghana
Nigeria
Kenya
Tanzania
Mozambique
Zambia
Product fully registered
Rwanda
Malawi
Burundi
Uganda
The
Gambia
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Challenges
• Aflatoxin is a hidden problem
• Chemical analysis required
• Awareness is low
• Long incubation for expression of liver cancer
• Regulations either non-existent or poorly enforced
• Market does not usually discriminate
• Demonstration of product value
• Lack of biopesticide manufacturers
The value of a technology on the shelf is as much as the cost of the space it occupies on the shelf.
Must translate knowledge into usable products and practices to benefit people
But……
Poultry Feeding Study
$3,200 net
profit from
10,000 birds
in 8 weeks
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Aflasafe maize feed Toxic maize feed
Innovation Platform
• Platform meetings with leadership and members of Poultry Association of Nigeria, feed manufacturers, maize aggregators, aflasafe farmers, vet professionals and regulators
• Poultry farmers to buy all aflasafe maize at a negotiated premium
• Agriculture ministry to fund NAFDAC to set up aflatoxin testing facilities in each state
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Integrated approach to manage aflatoxins
Aggregation
Aflasafe
Inputs & training to improve productivity
Farmer groups/ value chain
Training for pre/postharvest
afla management
Awareness and sensitizations Policy and advocacy
Market linkages
Aflatoxin testing
AgResults Aflasafe Pilot -- 2013
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Some key statistics
• Number of implementers: 4
• Number of farmers: 1,015
• Treated area: 1,457 ha
• Average productivity: 4.3 tons/ha
• Maize aggregated for sale: 2,031 tons
• Samples with <4 ppb AF (n = 660): 99%
• Samples with >70% aflasafe strains
(n = 88): 65% to 100%
• ROI: -28 to 510% (mean 210%)
• Aflasafe maize kept for family (n = 60): 46%
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Scaling-Out
• Nigeria: AgResults farmers to produce 260,000 tons of Aflasafe maize)
• Senegal: Area-wide treatment in 2013 and 2014; about 16 tons used
• Kenya: Government buy-in; about 230 tons procured; excellent support
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Aflasafe Manufacturing Facility
Large-scale: capacity 5 tons/hour Cost: ~US$1.6 million; Price: $14 - $18/ha Purpose: Scaling up
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Modular Manufacturing Facility
Capacity: 5 tons/day Cost: ~US$400,000 Purpose: Introduction Cost: $12 – 15/ha Labour intensive Employment friendly
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Current and future biocontrol efforts
• Create a sustainable system
(commercialization/public good) where
small holder farmers have access to
Aflasafe and are incentivized to utilize
Aflasafe to control aflatoxin levels
• Develop business plan (GIZ)
• Financing and implementation of
manufacturing facility
• Advocacy, awareness, demonstration of
product value
• Full registration, licensing and
stewardship
• Training and technical back-stopping
• Develop second generation product
• Develop regional strains
IITA
Tucson
USDA/ARS IITA, USDA, & Doreo have Teamed up to Bring
Aflatoxin Prevention to Africa
Made Possible by Many National Partners in Ministries, Industry, and on the Farm
Nigeria
For more information about aflatoxin biocontrol for Africa, check out: www.aflasafe.com