Category: News & Updates
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SBN Newsletter #20- April 2019
In this issue you will read about: Financial literacy trained farmers recognized Banks and unions in the sesame zone positive about the future The practice of sesame marketing at odds with the quality measurement principles: A call for rewarding quality Input credit remains the key priority challenge in sesame production Improved collaboration at the grassroots…
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MoF approves tax-free imports of agricultural mechanization, irrigation and animal feed technologies and equipment
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) approves the imports of agricultural mechanization, irrigation and animal feed technologies, and equipment to be tax-free. http://www.ata.gov.et/mof-approves-tax-free-imports/
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A new market information system developed
A new market information system, which will provide market-related data to farmers, was developed by the MoT&I at a cost of four million dollars. Fortune reports https://addisfortune.news/farmers-hotline-gets-connected/
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Benefit-SBN to recognise farmer financial literacy trainees
Together with Woreda Cooperative Promotion Offices, Farmer Cooperative Unions and Primary Cooperatives in Northwest Ethiopia, Benefit-SBN will recognise financial literacy trained farmers. Those farmers who successfully record their costs and do cost benefit analysis for their farm activities to the expected level will receive certificate of appreciation. Trainers and Benefit-SBN staff are checking on the…
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Kebele level agro-economic planning orientation and training held in different places
From February to mid-March 2019, the programme facilitated orientation and training sessions for 55 kebeles (28 from Amhara and 27 from Tigray).
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Successful knowledge exchange organised by Ethiopian Sesame Business Network
“The Ethiopian delegation learned a lot about sesame production enhancing techniques, methods for providing training and public services and alternative forms of financing farmers. These are definitely the three biggest challenges Ethiopia faces.” Florentine Dirks, agro-economist https://www.wur.nl/en/Research-Results/Research-Institutes/centre-for-development-innovation/show-cdi/Successful-knowledge-exchange-organised-by-Ethiopian-Sesame-Business-Network.htm
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“Together, we adopt a more inclusive way of doing agribusiness”
The Sesame Business Network aims to change the sesame sector in Ethiopia. “Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation has contributed to a change in culture, towards a more inclusive approach that puts farmers first”, says Assistant Manager Anteneh Mekuria. https://www.wur.nl/en/testimonial/Together-we-adopt-a-more-inclusive-way-of-doing-agribusiness.htm
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Regional annual meetings held
“What we have not done is still greater than what we have done thus far. We need to further work together to bring change in the sesame sector.” Fiseha Bezabih, Deputy Director of Tigray Agriculture Bureau. “There is still a lot in the plate for 2019. There is a potential for high performance of the…
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SBN Newsletter #19 – November 2018
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Training on cooperative marketing and accounting
From the 18th – 20th of October 2018, Benefit-SBN in collaboration with Ardaita College, Federal, and Regional Cooperative Promotion Agency Bureaus and GIZ organised training on cooperative marketing and financial accounting for 82 employees from selected cooperatives and Cooperative Promotion Offices, at Gondar and Humera towns.
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