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Gender and Age of people featured
Male
Consent?
yes, gathered by Farm Africa
Photographer Credit
Farm Africa / Eliza Powell
Names of people featured
Tumaini Elibariki
Progress or need focus
progress
Country (mandatory)
Tanzania
Specific keywords
Crops
Crops
sunflower
additional not included in options above - describing the content and style of the resource
Chefs for Change, sunflower, sunflowers, drought-tolerant, improved seeds, hybrid seeds, drought, climate-smart
Date resource was created on location
09 May 19 @ 13:41
Staff member content was gathered by
Charlotte Senior
Caption
Farm Africa project officer Tumaini Elibariki pictured with flourishing sunflowers grown by Timothy, a farmer working with support from Farm Africa to trial the use of a new type of hybrid sunflower seed on two acres of farmland. This type of sunflower seed is more drought-tolerant and produces larger sunflower heads with higher yields of seeds.
Project (Tanzania)
Flourishing Futures (Sunflower)
Project or event summary
The chefs met with Maasai farmer Timothy Stone and his wife Joyce, farmers with 10 children, who have been growing sunflowers for 10 years in Chemchem village, in the Manyara Region’s Babati District. The couple has been working with Farm Africa to trial a new type of hybrid sunflower seed on two acres of their farmland. Timothy bought 370,000 TSh worth of the new seed.
He also used the traditional type of sunflower seed in one his fields, and the contrast between the plants grown with the traditional seed and hybrid seed was striking. A drought that hit the area a month after the seeds had been planted hindered the growth of the crop grown using traditional seeds, leading to a failed crop, while the plants grown using the improved seed thrived. The flowers grown with the new seed were the couple’s most successful harvest ever due to the new seed, even despite the drought.
Timothy commented: “Everyone is asking why this field is so successful. There is a lot of respect in the community when people see this field. I feel like a farmer leader.”
He is now acting as a model farmer to inspire other farmers to adopt this new type of seed, which produces larger, more drought-tolerant sunflower heads. Sunflowers with larger heads are more productive: they have more seeds. The best sunflowers are those whose heads are so large the stalk bends under the weight.
The couple also has another eight acres of land elsewhere where they grow sorghum and pigeon peas.
Quotes
Andoni posted on Instagram:
"Timothy leads the pilot plantation of sunflowers that substantially improve the quantity and quality of the harvest. Acting on all variables, we aspire to the future self-sufficiency of strategic crops."
Marker lat / long: -6, 35 (WGS84)
Public: Chefs for Change Gaggan Andoni Tanzania visit May 2019
Public: Sunflowers