According to PIND, (2011) production can be improve through better understanding of the activities of small farmers around group formation, production techniques, and access to services. Others ways are as follows:
- Promote the consistent use of improved high yielding, disease resistant, varieties coming from certified nurseries where the varieties can be traced;
- Promote good agronomic practices through public and private extension to farmers as a way of improving productivity, including improving access to and use of fertilisers, herbicides, pesticides, etc to farmers;
- Analyze the constraints around the commercial supply of labour saving devices (harvester, lifter) that could reduce the labour cost of farmers;
- Enable the provision of viable and relevant extension services to farmers; and
- Improve the capacity of nurseries to provide consistent varieties with the traits desired by the processing companies and to develop viable business models for commercial distribution.
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