During its first year of existence, the NGO Dahari was able to carry out numerous actions to support Anjouanese producers alongside institutional development efforts, its integration into the Comorian landscape and its financial security. For this, a team of 6 technicians housed in its intervention villages was mobilized 80% of their time in the fields. These technicians were able to support a total of more than 1.800 people – almost 400 producers and direct beneficiaries, and their families.

The first remarkable results concern the cultivation of potatoes in normal and off-season, with 19 demonstration plots in four villages, developed in partnership with the most dynamic producers to demonstrate improved production techniques such as drip irrigation. drip, compost production, localized fertilization and hilling. These demonstration plots were the learning centers through the Farmer Field Schools which were conducted there.

The 147 registered beneficiaries not only benefited from quality potato seeds thanks to our CIRAD/FNAC-FA partnership, but were able to strengthen their skills through a cycle of five Farmer Field School sessions, for a total of 40 training sessions. during the normal season and the off-season. Based on the data collected, we can estimate that we produced 37.5 tonnes of potatoes from 7.5 tonnes of seeds distributed, generating an income estimated at 102 KMF per beneficiary. We would like to thank the Swiss Embassy in Madagascar for funding the potato campaign (normal and off-season) and the British Embassy in Mauritius for funding the potato campaign (off-season). At the same time, we supported the market gardening campaign with the delivery of 000g of quality seed. With the same methodology (presented above), we were able to support the establishment of 7500 demonstration plots, and not only provide 19 producers with the necessary seeds but also strengthen their skills through modules of six field sessions. peasant schools in nine villages, a total of 251 training courses over the year. We thank the Swiss Embassy in Madagascar and the Franco-Comorian Co-development Program (PFCC – off-season only) for their support of the 60 market gardening campaigns.

Despite some mobilization difficulties, we consider the participation rate of 48% of farmers, the count made from people who followed more than 80% of the sessions, which we consider to be a success. Knowing that we did not spend any per diem since the producers came by their own means and their sole will. The NGO also supported 6 entrepreneurs in opening local agricultural input shops. These entrepreneurs all received starting stocks and three technical training courses on the rational use of phytosanitary products (in order to be able to provide free quality advice during product sales). Five stores will continue their activity in 2014 (the last store having abandoned), despite still insufficient sales in 2013: based on our tests, and the optimizations to be made, we hope to make them commercially interesting in 2014. These stores were developed thanks to in support of the PFCC. Furthermore, we also carried out planting campaigns, where we continued to develop the approach of rolling gliricidia cuttings managed by village committees. This year, we conducted it in a single pilot village, where we were able to plant 12 plots. Nevertheless, it has been demonstrated that cutting rolling can be a local alternative to costly stocking projects that can be entirely driven by local communities and costs nothing. Finally, we contributed to improving the understanding of the importance of agriculture-livestock integration among more than 300 villagers, by conducting 12 demonstration plots of cattle pens with quality fodder management nearby and training on the composting in Farmer Field Schools. In terms of improving the approach by which we target the integration of young people, women and the development of off-season crops, we can share the following results: on average, 32% of our beneficiaries are women (all agricultural support combined). The practice of off-season cultivation is recent in Anjouan: Dahari is trying to develop it, given its strong potential for increasing farmers' income. However, this requires real mastery of techniques as well as risk-taking, which is why we are very happy to have been able to convince 67% of our potato beneficiaries and 30% of our market gardening beneficiaries to practice out of season this year. This year we were not able to measure the average age of our beneficiaries (something that will be done for 2014) but we were able to see that more and more young people are interested in Dahari and its methods. This point will be one of our priorities for 2014: it is about succeeding in mobilizing the youngest farmers, who are the future of Anjouan agriculture.