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Over 70 individuals from farmer cooperatives trained as trainers on cost recording and calculating cost benefit-analysis from the 4th – 5th of July 2019 at Gondar. Of this number 25 trainees are new and they are trained on both cost recording and training facilitation skills for two days while the remaining 46 trainees were from…

In an effort to avail different types of improved varieties of sesame and soya bean, Benefit-SBN in conjunction with GARC has started to conduct Crowdsourcing and Participatory Variety Selection activities in selected kebeles at Metema woreda. Training sessions were organised at two levels at the end of June 2019. First 12 participants drawn from Metema…

More than 800 development agents drawn from seven woredas of Western and Central zone of Gondar participated on a one day training of trainers workshop on farm cost recording and doing cost-benefit analysis as well as training facilitation skills. The training in Tach Armachiho, Tegede, East and West Belesa woredas of the Central Gondar zone…

In the past couple of weeks the price of sesame seeds has gone up daily on the trading floor that is concerning several actors in the sector, who expressed their confusion that the price at the local market escalated with no change on the international market. https://www.capitalethiopia.com/capital/sesame-rise-continues/

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) approves the imports of agricultural mechanization, irrigation and animal feed technologies, and equipment to be tax-free. http://www.ata.gov.et/mof-approves-tax-free-imports/

A new market information system, which will provide market-related data to farmers, was developed by the MoT&I at a cost of four million dollars. Fortune reports https://addisfortune.news/farmers-hotline-gets-connected/

Together with Woreda Cooperative Promotion Offices, Farmer Cooperative Unions and Primary Cooperatives in Northwest Ethiopia, Benefit-SBN will recognise financial literacy trained farmers. Those farmers who successfully record their costs and do cost benefit analysis for their farm activities to the expected level will receive certificate of appreciation. Trainers and Benefit-SBN staff are checking on the…

From February to mid-March 2019, the programme facilitated orientation and training sessions for 55 kebeles (28 from Amhara and 27 from Tigray).

“The Ethiopian delegation learned a lot about sesame production enhancing techniques, methods for providing training and public services and alternative forms of financing farmers. These are definitely the three biggest challenges Ethiopia faces.” Florentine Dirks, agro-economist https://www.wur.nl/en/Research-Results/Research-Institutes/centre-for-development-innovation/show-cdi/Successful-knowledge-exchange-organised-by-Ethiopian-Sesame-Business-Network.htm

The Sesame Business Network aims to change the sesame sector in Ethiopia. “Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation has contributed to a change in culture, towards a more inclusive approach that puts farmers first”, says Assistant Manager Anteneh Mekuria. https://www.wur.nl/en/testimonial/Together-we-adopt-a-more-inclusive-way-of-doing-agribusiness.htm