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Field day held at Misrak Belesa
Misrak Belesa Woreda Office of Agriculture organized field day for more than 60 woreda and kebele level agricultural professionals and administrators on 16th of September 2019. The participants visited Achikan kebele farmer training centre (FTC) where different sesame varieties and rotation crops such as mung bean, soya bean, sorghum and a fodder crop cowpea has…
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Labour sensitization events organized at Metema Woreda
Over 500 labourers and some commercial farmers attended labour sensitization events organized at Gendawuha and Kokit towns on 7th and 8th of September 2019. West Gondar Labour and Social Affairs Office together with Benefit-SBN organized the events.
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CDI-WUR manager pays a visit to the sesame production areas of Northwest Ethiopia
Hedwig Bruggeman, Manager of Centre for Development Innovation at Wageningen University and Research (CDI-WUR) together with Dr. Irene Koomen, BENEFIT coordinator and Dr. Dawit Alemu, BENEFIT manager visited the sesame production area of Northwest Ethiopia, from 03rd-4th of September 2019. The group came to Dansha on the first day of the trip and visited Gashaw…
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Farmers field day organized at Mirab Armachiho Woreda
Mirab Armaciho Woreda Office of Agriculture organized a farmer’s field day at Midregent Kebele on 1st of September 2019. 141 (17 women) smallholder farmers, commercial farmers, agricultural professionals and woreda administration participated in the field day. Participants visited a commercial farmers field, where sesame and rotation crops have been planted using good agricultural practices, farmer…
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2018 Benefit-SBN Annual Report
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A study on marketing chains of sesame in Northwest Ethiopia
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Sesame yields and (post-)harvest losses in Ethiopia
In the sesame production and marketing season of 2013, a yield study was conducted through a survey and other methods with 93 farmers, as to gather data on farmers’ sesame yields and production practices. In addition, a study on harvest, transport, and storage losses has been undertaken to identify sources and quantities of sesame losses,…
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Financing’sesame’ production’in’ northwest’Ethiopia
To get more insights on the finance dynamics and mechanisms in the sesame sector in northwest Ethiopia, the Support Programme undertook a study on credit and production costs of sesame producers. This report demonstrates that the sesame sector consists of a variety of different credit providers, both formal and informal, which all play their role…
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SBN Newsletter #21
In the 21st issue of the SBN Newsletter you will read about: Kebele Agro Economic Planning (KAEP): a challenge for the 13 lowland woredas in Northwest Ethiopia Training sessions organised on entrepreneurship and business plan development, home gardening, seed production, financial literacy Quality seed shortages continue to be a top bottleneck in the sesame…
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Training for youth and women farmers at Belesa
Benefit-SBN organised targeted training to women and young farmers on 20 steps improved sesame production technologies and financial literacy on 12th of July 2019 at Guhala town, Belesa woreda The objective of the training was to increase the knowledge and skills of women and young farmers with on the improved sesame production technologies and cash…
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