On the 22nd of May 2019, Gondar Agricultural Research Center (GARC) together with Benefit-SBN organised a one-day orientation workshop, with the objective of introducing the scaling up plan of 2019 production season and sharing responsibilities among relevant stakeholders. In attendance were 22 individuals including woreda administrators, agriculture office Heads, extension division leaders, Central and West Gondar zones agriculture department heads,

On the 27th of May 2019, Benefit-SBN and ISSD Tigray Unit organised a one-day training for 42 individuals including seed experts from woredas, private seed producers and seed producing cooperatives drawn from Kafta-Humera, Tahtay Adiyabo and Wolkaiet. The objective of the training was to improve the knowledge and skill of producers and experts on quality sesame seed production, financial literacy,

About 25 development agents convened from the six-sesame producing woredas of Western and North-western Tigray zones were trained as trainers on improved sesame production package, financial literacy, environmental degradation and sesame value chain development issues, from the 24th-25th of May 2019. The training was conducted with the objective of filling the knowledge and skill gap of newly recruited development agents