Category: News & Updates

In many areas of Northwest Ethiopia, the 2017 sesame production season seemed to go very well, except the occurrence of some pests, wind, hail and unexpected rain during hilla stacking in some places such as May-kadra, Selferedi, Hagereselam etc. Although these challenges affect some farmers sesame produce, by and large, many sesame farmers in Northwest…

Over 250 participants drawn from federal to woreda level government organizations, partner projects, private companies, large and small-scale farmers attended a field visit organised by North Gondar Zone Department of Agriculture, Gondar Agricultural Research Center, ATA, and Benefit-SBN at Metema and Mirab Armachiho woredas, from the 20th -21stof September 2017. The main objective of the field…

Most farmers in Northwest Ethiopia do not do the cost-benefit analysis of their farm activities. This is mainly because of the fact that farmers have limited or no habit of recording their income and expenses. In fact, some farmers try to calculate their profitability depending on their memory. These farmers, however, either tend to forget…

Humera Agricultural Research Centre (HuARC) and Western Tigray zone Department of Agriculture and Natural Resource in collaboration with BENEFIT portfolio programmes- SBN, ISSD and CASCAPE organised field visit for nearly 260 individuals drawn from different organisations- farmers cooperatives, unions, research, agriculture, university, private companies and projects at Kafta Humera and Asegede Tsimila woredas. The event,…