Responsibilities

• Ensure that the farmers and farmer groups can access quality inputs through partnerships between input dealers, village agents, and farmers producing quality declared seed.
• Provide extension services to the farmers on the recommended agronomic practices, including the timing of planting, spacing, fertilizer, and other input applications and harvesting.
• Ensure that the farmers harvest at the right time and use the right technologies to minimize pre- and post-harvest losses and meet the quality expectations of the traders, processors, and exporters.
• Facilitate establishing and maintaining demonstration gardens and disseminating improved sunflower, soybeans, groundnuts, and sesame technologies that can significantly increase the productivity of the resource-poor smallholder farmers through access to knowledge and skills needed to transform their farming practices.
• Facilitate increased adoption of improved, certified commercial oil seed varieties through demonstrations
• Mainstreaming cross-cutting issues including gender, HIV/AIDS, poverty, natural resource management, etc, that impact sustainable commercial oil seed production.
• Working with and building the capacity of the Public Extension Workers and community extension workers to provide extension and other value chain services to the farmers and farmer groups.