International Potato Center (CIP) is orgainizing the one-year progress event within the project “Potato Production Support and Research to Improve Food Security in Khatlon – Phase II”, implementing by CIP with USAID support.
The event will be held in April 12, 2018 at 09:30 AM in the hotel Sheraton.
The field day will be organized in Khatlon at sweetpotato farmer’s nursery in April 11 – Ahmad Zoirov, Bokhtar district, Djamoat Mekhnatobod, Demo Guliston (Click to see this area on Google map – 37°44’26.9″N 68°48’36.0″E).
AGENDA
The one-year progress event within the project Potato Production Support and Research to Improve Food Security in Khatlon, Tajikistan – Phase II, implementing by CIP with USAID support.
April 12, 2018
Hotel Sheraton, Dushanbe
- 09:30 – 10:00 – Registration
- 10:00 – Event’s opening: Laura Cizmo, economic growth team leader, U.S. Agency for International Development
- 10:15-10:20 – what we do – video
- 10:20-11:00 – Enhancing production and diversifying use of resilient and nutritious sweetpotato in Tajikistan. Sreekanth Attaluri, sweetpotato expert. International Potato Center
Questions/discussion
- 11:00-11:30 – COFFEE BREAK
- 11:30-12:00 – Collaboration of the Institute of Botany, Plant Physiology and Genetics of the Tajik Academy of Sciences collaboration with CIP. Zulfiya Davlatnazarova, the Institute of Botany, Plant Physiology and Genetics of the Tajik Academy of Sciences
Questions/discussion
- 12:00 – LUNCH
- 13:00-13:30 – One-year progress of USAID supported project “Potato Production Support and Research to Improve Food Security in Khatlon, Tajikistan – Phase II”. Rusudan Mdivani, Regional Leader – Central Asia and the Caucasus, International Potato Center
Questions/discussion
- 13:30-14:00 – presentation of web and promotional materials
- 14:00 COFFEE BREAK and practical discussion, Makhmadzamon Sulangov, project national consultant and CIP beneficiary-farmer Ubaidullo Nazriev.