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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…

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,…