Sesame Business Network - Northwest Ethiopia
Misrak Belesa Woreda Office of Agriculture organized field day for more than 60 woreda and kebele level agricultural professionals and administrators on 16th of September 2019. The participants visited Achikan kebele farmer training centre (FTC) where different sesame varieties and rotation crops such as mung bean, soya bean, sorghum and a fodder crop cowpea has been planted. After the field
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Over 500 labourers and some commercial farmers attended labour sensitization events organized at Gendawuha and Kokit towns on 7th and 8th of September 2019. West Gondar Labour and Social Affairs Office together with Benefit-SBN organized the events.
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Hedwig Bruggeman, Manager of Centre for Development Innovation at Wageningen University and Research (CDI-WUR) together with Dr. Irene Koomen, BENEFIT coordinator and Dr. Dawit Alemu, BENEFIT manager visited the sesame production area of Northwest Ethiopia, from 03rd-4th of September 2019. The group came to Dansha on the first day of the trip and visited Gashaw Mesafint’s, a smallholder sesame farmer,
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Mirab Armaciho Woreda Office of Agriculture organized a farmer’s field day at Midregent Kebele on 1st of September 2019. 141 (17 women) smallholder farmers, commercial farmers, agricultural professionals and woreda administration participated in the field day. Participants visited a commercial farmers field, where sesame and rotation crops have been planted using good agricultural practices, farmer training centre and seed multiplication
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In the 21st issue of the SBN Newsletter you will read about: Kebele Agro Economic Planning (KAEP): a challenge for the 13 lowland woredas in Northwest Ethiopia Training sessions organised on entrepreneurship and business plan development, home gardening, seed production, financial literacy Quality seed shortages continue to be a top bottleneck in the sesame production SBN stakeholder start-up the
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Benefit-SBN organised targeted training to women and young farmers on 20 steps improved sesame production technologies and financial literacy on 12th of July 2019 at Guhala town, Belesa woreda The objective of the training was to increase the knowledge and skills of women and young farmers with on the improved sesame production technologies and cash recording and performing cost-benefit analysis.
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Benefit-SBN in collaboration with Fair and Sustainable (F&S) organised loan management training for 52 accountants, managers and loan professionals of nine farmer cooperatives from Metema and Selam Unions from the 10th-11th of July 2019 at Gondar. The objective of the training was to develop the cooperative and union members knowledge and skill on loan management. The session started with the
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