Sesame Business Network - Northwest Ethiopia
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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51 individuals convened from farmer cooperative unions, primary cooperatives, woreda office of agricultures and cooperative promotion offices received training on financial literacy from the 29th -30th of June, 2019 at Shire-Endasilassie. The objective of the training was to build the capacity of trainer’s in training financial literacy. In particular the training was given to increase the knowledge and skills of
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Over 70 individuals from farmer cooperatives trained as trainers on cost recording and calculating cost benefit-analysis from the 4th – 5th of July 2019 at Gondar. Of this number 25 trainees are new and they are trained on both cost recording and training facilitation skills for two days while the remaining 46 trainees were from last year and they took
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Benefit-SBN in collaboration with ISSD Amhara organized a two-day training on improved seed production techniques to 29 members of Workamba and Quara Seed Producer Cooperatives (SPCs) and three agricultural experts from the 1st -2nd of June 2019 at Gondar. The objectives of the training are to: develop the knowledge and skills of SPC members on quality seed production, marketing and
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In an effort to avail different types of improved varieties of sesame and soya bean, Benefit-SBN in conjunction with GARC has started to conduct Crowdsourcing and Participatory Variety Selection activities in selected kebeles at Metema woreda. Training sessions were organised at two levels at the end of June 2019. First 12 participants drawn from Metema Woreda Agriculture Office, SBN focal
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