Category: News & Updates
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Tot on cost recording
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…
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2019 farm-cost recording and calculating training held at Gondar
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…
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Training held on improved seed production methods
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…
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Participatory Variety Selection to meet the seed challenge
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…
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Training on entrepreneurship and business plan development
Benefit-SBN in collaboration with Central Gondar Zone Industry and Investment Department organised a two-day training on entrepreneurship and business plan development for six entrepreneurs who are engaged in value addition activities related to sesame, from the 10th– 11th of June 2019. In the first day of the training participants have learnt about characteristics of entrepreneurship,…
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Orientation workshop held on the 2019 production season scaling-up plan
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…
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Training on improved sesame seed production
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…
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Newly recruited development agents receive training on different subjects
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…
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Development agents trained on financial literacy and training facilitation skills
More than 800 development agents drawn from seven woredas of Western and Central zone of Gondar participated on a one day training of trainers workshop on farm cost recording and doing cost-benefit analysis as well as training facilitation skills. The training in Tach Armachiho, Tegede, East and West Belesa woredas of the Central Gondar zone…
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Sesame trading: the price at the local market escalated with no change on the international market
In the past couple of weeks the price of sesame seeds has gone up daily on the trading floor that is concerning several actors in the sector, who expressed their confusion that the price at the local market escalated with no change on the international market. https://www.capitalethiopia.com/capital/sesame-rise-continues/
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