Tool-adoption
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Legume CHOICE tool
Legume adoptability factors
Questions for the FCD instrument
Factors
1. Market
- Low price (access to market) and poor infrastructure
- Poor connections with buyers
- Poor packaging and branding (value addition)
2. Input supply
- Seed (improved) and local (superior varieties)
- Fertilizer (inorganic and bio-fertilizers)
- Implements, e.g. row planters, Sheller for some legume crops (green gram and cow pea)
- Chemicals
- Credit service
- Untimely delivery of inputs
3. Pests and diseases 4. Knowledge
- Improved technologies and best agronomic practices + lack of knowledge on values
- Lack of knowledge sharing forums for value chain actors
- Lack of knowledge on post-harvest handlings (storage)
- Processing and utilization problems
- Acceptability/attitude/culture- food habit
- Legumes are labor demanding (manual weeding and harvesting)
- Legumes need extra labor for intercropping and , relay cropping
5. Land related problems - Land scarcity and long-term nature of the benefit in the rotation system 6. Water
- Shortage for irrigation/nursery operation
- Inadequate knowledge on water harvesting
7. Soil nutrient depletion
- Soil acidity that creates aluminum toxicity and fixation of soil phosphorus, and soil erosion
8. Capital – cash flow and access to credit
