Category: News & Updates

33 sesame farmers living at Lemlem kebele, Metema Woreda become exemplary in applying improved sesame production technologies in their adjacent fields. Farmers in the area and agricultural professionals from the three woredas of Western Gondar zone- Metema, Mirab Armachiho, and Qura visited the adjacent fields in which improved sesame production technologies are applied. They also…

Benefit-SBN in collaboration with Tsehay Farmers’ Cooperative Union and Central Gondar zone Agriculture Department organised training of trainers workshop on organic sesame production for 48 development agents and 15 agricultural experts and woreda heads on the 21st of June 2018. Participants were convened from East Belesa, West Belesa and Kinfaz Begela Woreda Office of Agriculture…

Weather forecasting can be taken as one of the central tasks to ensure high productivity and quality of sesame. Sesame is one of the crops which are highly influenced by variable weather condition starting from planting to harvesting and storage. In most of the cases, sesame producer farmers in the north-western part of Ethiopia has…

About 50 individuals drawn from 10 farmers primary cooperatives in North and Central Gondar zones receive a three-day training on loan management. Managers, credit committees, employers of 10 primary cooperatives and Metema Union and representatives of Woreda Cooperative Promotion Offices attended the training which was conducted from the 18th – 20th of June 2018 at Gondar. The…

20 members of Workamba Seed Producer Cooperative from Kokit Kebele, Metema woreda receive training on quality seed production and post-harvest handling techniques, seed marketing, and cooperative organisation management on the 14th of June 2018 at Gendewuha town. The training was jointly organised by the two BENEFIT sister programmes- Benefit-SBN and Integrated Seed Sector Development- ISSD- Amhara.…

Over 180 employees drawn from 97 Primary Cooperatives under 10 Farmers Cooperative Unions in Northwest Ethiopia were trained as trainers in recording farm cash flows and calculating cost-benefit analysis. The training sessions were organised for two days in mid-May 2018 at Sanja, Metema, Jawi, Humera, and Sheraro. The training sessions were organised separating the old…

Tigray Commercial Oilseed and Pulse Producer Organisation (TOPPO) in collaboration with Agriculture and Livestock Resource Minister and Tigray Region Agriculture and Livestock Bureau organised Sesame Business Forum from the 9th -10th of June 2018 at Mekelle. The objective of the workshop was to create a space for commercial farmers so that they can discuss the major challenges…

Benefit-SBN in collaboration with Humera Agricultural Research Center (HuARC) organised Tigray regional SBN stakeholders annual workshop on the 30th of December 2017 at Humera. About 120 individuals drawn from the six sesame producing woredas of Western and North-western Tigray zones attended the one day workshop. The objective of the workshop was to evaluate the 2017…

The sixth Amhara region annual SBN stakeholders workshop, organised on the 24th of December 2017 at Gondar, brought together over 110 participants from the six sesame producing woredas, north Gondar and Awi zones and the regional city, Bahir Dar. The one day workshop was jointly organised by Gondar Agricultural Research Center (GARC), North Gondar Zone Department…

Ardaita Agricultural Vocational Education and Training College (ATVET), in collaboration with Fair and Sustainable (F&S) and Benefit-SBN, organised a two-day training on ‘Cooperative marketing’ and ‘Cooperative organisation and management’ from 11th – 15th of December 2017 at Gondar. 28 participants convened from 8 cooperatives under Metema and Setit Humera Unions, experts from woreda cooperative promotion…