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Newsletter 11 Sesame Business Network Newsletter Issue 11 July 2016 Amhara and Tigray region BoAs to boost sesame production About this newsletter The Amhara and Tigray Regional Bureaus production package and marketing of of Agriculture (BoA) are making determined sesame. The training sessions were cascaded The purpose of the SBN newsletter is to efforts to boost the productivity and quality of down to woreda and kebele levels. The trained provide relevant and timely information sesame by rolling-out the 20 Steps sesame professionals trained over 22,600 farmers. on the Sesame Business Network and production technologies in their respective After the training, farmers took Competency its support project- BENEFIT - SBN. regional Agricultural Commercialisation Occupational Certificate (CoC) test and more than Clusters (ACCs). The ACCs in the two regions half of the trainees passed the test. include twelve sesame producing woredas, In this issue we highlight the major namely, Quara, Metema, Tach Armachiho, In the same vein, the Tigray BoA organised activities that have been taken place Mirab Armachiho, Tegede and Jawi in Amhara training sessions in a cascaded system. First, between April and June 2016. region and Kafta Humera, Tsegede, Wolkaiet, over 50 agricultural professionals were trained Tahtay Adiyabo, Tselemti and Asegede as trainers on sesame, sorghum and mung bean Tsimbla woredas in Tigray region. production packages at regional level. Then the professionals provided the training for about Rolling out ‘20 Steps’: Massive trainings 340 development agents. The training was Regional BoAs have started the ‘20 further given to 1,588 farmers at kebele level. Steps’ rolling out activities by organising Furthermore, 350 investor farmers were trained massive training sessions for their on sesame, soy and mung bean production in agricultural professionals. In May 2016, Humera and 65 others were trained on sesame the Amhara BoA organised ToT for over production in Tahtay Adiyabo woreda. 300 professionals on improved sesame Continued on page 2 Inside this issue Amhara and Tigray region BoAs to boost sesame production.....................2 Financing the sesame sector’..............2 ARARI and TARI to improve the productivity and quality of sesame......3 ToT on rotation crops.............................3 7 Benefits of eating sorghum...............4 Sesame investor farmers discuss with officials and stakeholders ............5 ToT on financial literacy Adeday Microfinance Kafta-Humera About 50 members of selected sesame included in the training were: cost recording branch....................................................6 producer primary cooperatives from north using logbook; calculating interest costs, total Gondar and western Tigray zones participated cost, total income, profit or loss; purchase of Financing the sesame sector................7 in training of trainers’(ToT) workshops expensive assets and making decisions for next organised on ‘cost recording and basic cost sessions. Trainees will go back to their primary Women and young sesame farmers calculations’. The ToTs were organised at cooperatives and each will provide training to 20 trained on ‘20 Steps’ ...........................8 Gondar on 21st and 22nd ; and at Humera on members of their cooperatives. It is planned to the 24th and 25th, of June 2016. The topics train about 1,100 farmers in this season. Upcoming activities...............................8 Feedback from ToT participants on page 2 Issue 11 July 2016 Sesame Business Network Newsletter Page 2 Running the ‘20 Steps’ at FTC and Amhara BoA, underlined the importance farmers’ fields of rolling out sesame production The Amhara Region BoA planned to package. He said as one of the six implement the ‘20 Steps’ at least in commodity crops in the region, in the 75% of farmers’ fields and 41 Farmer 2016 cropping season, the regional Training Centers (FTCs). In Tigray government gives especial attention the regional government wants all to sesame. “BoA together with ARARI, sesame farmers to implement the Agricultural Transformation Agency ‘20 Steps’. However, with the support (ATA) and BENEFIT-SBN designed a of BENEFIT-SBN, in western and comprehensive plan and currently northwestern zones of Tigray ‘20 Steps’ we are in the implementing stage. At demonstration is being conducted in present, planting is undergoing in all Dr. Shemelash Yeshanew, from Amhara region 1,588 model farmers and 38 FTCs. areas” He added lack of modern row BoA and Dr. Geremew Terefe from BENEFIT - SBN planter and some farmers’ resistance signing collaboration agreement to accept the technology are the Mr. Kiros Bitew, head of Tigray BoA, said rolling-out activity is being conducted in challenges observed thus far.” the regional government gives special cost sharing. attention to the production of sesame and rotation crops. He added in the Collaboration agreement The major stakeholders in the Humera area, farmers produce sesame The two regional BoA signed implementation of the rolling and rotational crops using the traditional collaboration agreements with out of ‘20 Steps’ are regional, way. Nowadays the regional government, BENEFIT-SBN support project to roll-out zonal and woreda bureaus, depart- together with stakeholders, is working improved sesame and rotational crops ments and offices of agriculture; hard to support farmers so that they can production technologies and improve regional Agricultural Research Institutes use improved production technologies. yields, quality and marketing and through Gondar Agricultural thereby increase farmers’ income. The Research Center (GARC) and Humera Likewise, Mr. Worku Awde, Senior Crop collaboration agreement builds on the Agricultural Research Center (HuARC) Production and Protection Expert in experiences of the last two years. The and BENEFIT-SBN. Feedback from the financial literacy trainees ...Continued from page 1 Muluwork Tigabu, a young accountant my area do not usually calculate from Jansuma their costs but if they want to multipurpose know whether they are mak- cooperative, Tach ing profit or not, they need to Armachiho woreda register their costs and do cost said: “Farmers in benefit analysis.” He added; “I our area often do like the training very much. I their agricultural have got important lessons. I am activities randomly. ready to go and capacitate the They do not do cost benefit analysis. 20 farmers in my cooperative.” They give attention to their income not to their cost. They need to predict Mr. Zeleke Mamo, marketing Participants working in groups beforehand whether the cost that they manager of Metema Multipurpose incur can be profitable or not. I am Farmers’ Cooperative Union, stated ready to train 20 farmers. I will use the that the financial literacy training is Setit and Lemelem Wolkaiet Farmer convenient time for farmers and give very important for farmers. Recording Cooperative Unions. BENEFIT-SBN training using different methods.” She and calculating their costs will help staff members are closely following up added: “the training is a bit late; farmers them learn which the training sessions and supporting already spened some money; I will go activities cost cooperative members. help them write the costs that they much and have already incurred; I will also help which ones cost In order to further strengthen the them record their future expenses and less; and then economic and marketing activities in calculate their costs.” make informed the SBN, BENEFIT- SBN employed a decisions on their senior economist Mr. Abraha Gebre- Mr. Mekonnen farm activities. mariam recently. Mr. Abraha has many Mebrhatu, is an Zeleke believes that many farmers will years’ experience in the sesame sector accountant from learn from the trained fellow farmers in as a union manager. He is one of the Kulemeday primary their areas. organisers and trainers of financial cooperative, literacy training. Mr. Abraha will engage May-dele Kebele, Support from projects more in the coordination of marketing Tsegede woreda. The training sessions have been and economic activities such as He feels that he is organised by BENEFIT-SBN, C4C/ farmers’ access to input and marketing capable of training farmers based on SNV and Agriterra in collaboration credit, collaboration with cooperatives what he has learnt. He said; “farmers in with Metema, Selam, Dansha Aurora, and unions, value addition activities etc. Issue 11 July 2016 Sesame Business Network Newsletter Page 3 ARARI and TARI striving to improve the productivity and quality of sesame Amhara Region Agricultural Research Institute (ARARI) and Tigray Agricultural Research Institute (TARI), through their Gondar and Humera Agricultural Research Centres (GARC and HuARC) are striving to generate and scale up improved agricultural technologies of sesame and other rotation crops that contribute to sustainable agricultural productivity, economic growth, food security and overall poverty reduction efforts in the country. New sesame varieties released Recently, both GARC and HuARC have 2016 research activities of GARC areas are: improving sesame and released new and improved sesame and HuARC pertaining to sesame other important crops (producing varieties called Gondar 1 and Setit-2, Among the major activities that GARC improved pre-basic seeds in about 120 respectively. Gondar 1 is a high is working on the 2016 cropping hectare and breeder seed of the newly yielding than the standard check. It season are: sorghum, haricot released Setit-2 in two hectare of land); moderately resists water
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