Dear okadi
Thanks for your questions, and I extremely happy to have discussion with my colleague.
Integrated youth and relief development association IYRDA runs operations in south-central
Somalia.
Below I have written answers
1- I do agree that unsuitable varieties are being provided in the form of seed, agencies involve contribution seeds do not analyze needs of farmers and don’t give suitable varieties time in need. I don’t have more experience but I observed many meetings that community farmers complain about poor seeds
Obviously this can be improved to give adequate training to organizations involve contribution seeds to obtain solution of unsuitable varieties.
2- I don’t think that assessment depends on essential requirement of farmers; farmers are provided unsuitable seeds and unsuitable season.
In my opinion, local and international NGOs should organize meetings to discuss farmers’ requirement with suitable variety seeds they need and time to prove it.
Humanitarian actors do not have certain information about the requirement of farmers, they bring seeds without consulting other organization, even other organizations do not have much information about requirement seeds.
Best regards
Khadra abdi ahmed
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