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  • SBN Newsletter #19 – November 2018

    SBN Newsletter #19 – November 2018

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  • Training on cooperative marketing and accounting

    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.

  • 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…

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