Sesame Business Network – Northwest Ethiopia

Category: News & Updates

  • Putting hillas- stacked sesame together

    Putting hillas- stacked sesame together

    Putting staked sesame (commonly called as hillas in Amharic) upright for drying (see the picture),  will help reduce the post-harvest losses, the labour cost, and contributes to improving the quality of sesame.

  • BENEFIT programmes organise field visit

    BENEFIT programmes organise field visit

    BENEFIT programmes-ISSD, CASCAPE and Benefit-SBN in collaboration with Western Tigray Zone Bureau of Agriculture and Humera Agricultural Research Center (HuARC) organised field day from the 29th-30th of September 2018. In attendance were over 200 individuals including farmers, agricultural professionals, researchers and government officials. The field day was conducted in Kafta Humera and Asgede Tsimbla woredas…

  • Food recipe demonstration

    Food recipe demonstration

    Benefit-SBN in collaboration with Metema Woreda Office of Agriculture demonstrated nutritious food recipe preparations from vegetables and pulse crops for about 50 individuals including farmers, development agents, and health extension workers.

  • Field day at Humera

    Field day at Humera

    On the 1st of October 2018, Humera Agricultural Research Center (HuARC) organised field day for about 300 people including smallholder and commercial farmers, agricultural professionals, government officials, and support projects.

  • BENEFIT programmes organise field visit

    BENEFIT programmes organise field visit

    BENEFIT programmes -ISSD, CASCAPE, and Benefit-SBN in collaboration with Western Tigray Zone Department of Agriculture and Humera Agricultural Research Center (HuARC) organised field day from the 29th-30th of September 2018.

  • Field day on improved sesame production technologies

    Field day on improved sesame production technologies

    “In order to meet the demand of agro-processing industries under construction, the country needs to produce more than one time per year. The government is ready to support farmers produce more than one time a year using irrigation.” Nearly 400 individuals including higher-level government officials from federal to woreda level and sesame farmers visited improved…

  • Farmers compare the different components of the improved sesame package

    Farmers compare the different components of the improved sesame package

    Nearly 50 farmers from Tach Armachiho Woreda evaluated the sesame experiment fields and compared the different components of the improved sesame production package (20 steps) in the farmer training centre (FTC) at Sanja on the 26th of August 2018.

  • Seed producer farmers experience sharing visit

    Seed producer farmers experience sharing visit

    Benefit-SBN and ISSD Amhara unit jointly organised experience sharing visit for sesame seed producer farmers from Workamba Seed Producers Cooperative (SPC), Metema woreda on the 21st of August 2018. The experience sharing visit was organised to help farmers’ learn from best-performing seed producers cooperatives through observation and interaction. Accordingly, 10 farmers (of which four are…

  • Field day participants voice their concern regarding production challenges

    Humera Agricultural Research Center (HuARC) in collaboration with Benefit-SBN organised farmers field day for farmers, agricultural professionals and researchers on the 18th and 19th of August 2018.

  • Field day at Humera

    Field day at Humera

    Humera Agricultural Research Center (HuARC) in collaboration with Benefit-SBN organised farmers field day for farmers, agricultural professionals and researchers on the 18th and 19th of August 2018. Farmers, researchers, experts, administrators, and state ministers and other officials from the federal government attended the field day. Attendees visited improved production technology trials at HuARC research sites and…