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Region: Name of the organisation: 3. Family enterprise questionnaire Maize Action Research, August - September 2011 Introduction - - - - This questionnaire focuses on the activities and experiences of family maize enterprises member to one of the PO’s participating to the self-assessment. All the participants of the self-assessment are asked to fill in the actual sheet after having participated to the self-assessment. The questions focuses on the production, storage-conservation, processing and marketing of maize as well as on the collection and use of economical data by the family enterprises. This survey enables FUPRO to have data on 360 family enterprises (24 PO x 15 members) You find two types of questions: a. Questions formulated like statements – to answer YES or NO b. Open questions – to be answered with quantitative data (quantity, price, percentage) The data of this questionnaire are to be transferred to the Excel sheet 3 – Data on maize family enterprises. The data entry enables to develop a big database and do analysis Facilitators: Keep the questionnaire and hand over later to FUPRO Check whether all the sheets indicates the region and the name of the organisation Number the sheets from 1 to 15. That makes each sheet unique (region-name of the OI and number). This is also aligned with the database structure. Gender Yes No Yes No I am a man I am a woman Membership date I am member of the PO since ....... (year) Position in the PO I am the president of the PO I am the secretary of the PO I am the treasurer of the PO I am another board member of the PO I am member of the PO, not member of the board Size and (people) composition of the family enterprise Total number of people in the enterprise Answer: ............ persons Adult number (> 18 years old) ............ adults Children number (< 18 years old) ............ children Size of the enterprise (Size of the cultivated land) What is the size of the cultivated land of your enterprise? Answers: What is the size of the maize cultivation land? ............ hectares ............ hectares What is the land size of the white maize? ............ hectares What is the land size of the yellow maize? ............ hectares Land Do you rent land of other farmers? Yes Do you borrow land to other farmers? 1 No Maize varieties What is the size of the plots cultivated with local varieties in your maize cultivation? What is the size of the plots cultivated with improved varieties in your maize cultivation? Maize varieties Did you change varieties during the last two seasons? Answers: ............ hectares ............ hectares Yes No Do you buy hybrid maize seeds? Animals Answers: What is the number of oxen in your enterprise? ............ oxen What is the number of other cattle (cows, bull, calfs, …)? ............ other cattle What is the number of small ruminants of the enterprise? ............ small (Goat, Sheep) Mechanisation and transport My enterprise is manual (hoe, ...) Yes No Yes No My enterprise has a complete animal draught unit (Oxen and plough) My enterprise has a tractor My enterprise has a donkey cart My enterprise has a motorcycle My enterprise has a bicycle Fertilisation We bring our domestic waste to our maize fields We use compost on our maize fields (compost heap or compost pits) We use NPK in the maize parcels We use urea in our maize parcels 2 ruminants Dosage and price of fertilisers Answers: What is the NPK dosage that you apply per hectare? ............ kg per hectare What is the price that you paid for the NPK? ............ FCFA per kg What is the dosage of urea you apply per hectare? ............ kg per hectare What is the price you paid for the urea? ............ FCFA per kg Labour We use external labour in our agricultural season for maize Yes No The paid labour is more important than the family labour Labour costs Answers: How much costs one working day labour? ............ FCFA per day What is the total cost of labour for the whole maize parcel of your enterprise (estimation of the price for one season) ............ FCFA per season Plant protection We take preventive measures in the maize parcels Yes No Yes No We do the necessary treatment in the field in case of diseases Agricultural credits We use credits from the traders that we reimburse after the harvest We use credits from the input providers that we reimburse after selling our maize I am member of a ‘merry-go-round’ (saving and informal credit association within the village) I use the ‘merry-go-round’ money for the maize cultivation Our exploitation has a bank account We use bank credits for our maize cultivation We get in debt to other villagers for our maize cultivation Harvest Answers: What is the maize production of the last season? ............ tons of maize What is the maize productivity per hectare? ............ kg/ha 3 Crop residues We use the crop residues to feed our animals Yes No We sell the crop residues to others (for animal feeding) Self-consumption and selling Answer Which part of the maize harvest is for the family consumption? ............ % of the harvest Which part of the harvest is to sell? ............ % of the harvest Storage - conservation Yes No We store our maize in traditional storages We store our maize in improved storages We store our maize in bags We store our maize in another way (plastic containers, jars etc…) We do the conservation in cobs We do the conservation in ears We do the conservation in grains We are using chemicals to protect the maize stock We are using natural/traditional products to protect the maize stock Storage loss Answer: What loss do you estimate for your maize stock? ............ quantity Processing Yes Our enterprise produces maize flour to sell Our enterprise has a mill for milling Our enterprise produces maize based animal feed Our enterprise produces maize based beverages We are selling maize based pastry/meals We are producing other maize based products 4 % of No the stored Marketing Yes It happens that we sell the maize on the field before the harvesting We sell our maize right after the harvest in order to have necessary money We keep our maize for a while to get the best prices We sell the fresh maize in the village We sell the fresh maize in retails in the local market We sell the fresh maize to the traders We sell our white maize to intermediates/traders that collects from the villages We sell our white maize in retail in the local market We sell our white maize to the traders by transporting it ourselves We sell our white maize through our PO I know to whom our PO sell the white maize of the members We sell our yellow maize to intermediates/traders that collects from villages We sell our yellow maize in retail at the local market We sell our yellow maize to the traders by transporting it ourselves We sell the yellow maize through our PO I know to whom our PO sells the yellow maize of the members 5 No Data collection Our enterprise collects data on: Yes Different crops land size Production volume Productivity (per hectare) Use of fertilisers (dosage) Use of seeds (varieties) Use of chemical products (product types and dosage) Production costs Storage loss Storage costs Processing costs Marketed volumes Prices obtained during the sale Maize prices at urban market level Cost-benefit analysis We dispose of a book recording the written and quantified data of the enterprise Does the enterprise improve with regard to the analysis and use of economical data? End of the Survey Thank you very much for your collaboration! 6 No
