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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.

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…

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…

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…