Scaling information and innovation one field day at a time

In Mozambique, communities from various districts in three northern provinces are benefitting from field days’ activities aimed to improve their practical knowledge, introduce technologies and increase adoption of new techniques that can improve agricultural production and productivity in their fields.

The field days involved men, women and youth farmers producing maize, sesame, cowpeas, sweet potatoes, soybeans, peanuts and pigeon peas, and the raising of livestock and poultry. During the field days, the different groups attend practical activities such as good farming practices, using improved climate resilient seeds, and identifying and addressing diseases in crops and animals, agricultural innovations and harvesting techniques.

In Niassa province, with high agriculture potential, the Accelerated Innovation Delivery Initiative (AID-I) being implemented by IITA–CGIAR in partnership with the International Potato Center (CIP) has been working with farmers on sweet potato production,, investing in the implementation of new technologies that include the adoption of improved varieties with more nutritional value, short production cycles and better economic returns for families, in the communities.

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