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Tigray BENEFIT projects (CASCAPE, ISSD
and SBN) organized joint farmers field day in
Kafta Humera and Asgede Tsimbla Woredas
to showcase their collaborative activities to
their stakeholders and thereby create plat-
form for experience sharing.
The joint farmers’ field day was organized on
30th September in Kafta Humera and 1st Oc-
tober in Asgede Tsimbla Woreda. The field
day was attended by farmers, investors and
experts from the Western and North-
Western Zones of the region. Policy makers at
federal and regional level including H.E Dr.
Eyasu Abraha, Minister of Agriculture; H.E Dr.
Bekele Bulado, Minister of Trade; H.E W/ro
Almaz Messele, House of Representative Chair
Woman of Agriculture Standing Committee; Ato
Fisseha Bezabih, Deputy Bureau Head of
BoARD; Ato Esayas Tadesse, Western Zone Ad-
ministrator; State Ministers, guests from BENE-
FIT Coordination Unit, Research Centers, and
Universities were in attendance.
CASCAPE Mekelle University Cluster in collabo-
ration with Endamehoni Woreda Office of Agri-
culture and Rural Development (OoARD) orga-
nized a one-day joint farmers field day on Oc-
tober 28, 2017 to share experience from the
demonstrations and trials conducted in the
Woreda. The farmers’ day was organized to
facilitate the transfer of agricultural
knowledge and experiences among farmers,
experts, DAs and Woreda administration from
Endamehoni Woreda and Mekelle University.
BENEFIT Partners Organized Farmers Field Day in Two Woredas
I N S I D E T H I S
I S S U E :
MU– CoDANR
council members
visited CASCAPE
activities
5
Royal Nether-
land Embassy
Delegates visited
Tigray Region
5
Papaya Platform
Workshop Held
in Alamata
6
CASCAPE- MU
organized re-
gional workshop
on vegetable
production
7
Training on Best-
Fit Technology
Testing provided
to TARI
8
Mekelle Hosts
BENEFIT Collab-
orative Activities
Review and
Planning Work-
shop
9
CASCAPE Organized Farmers Field Day in collaboration with Endamehoni Woreda
BENEFIT part-
nership and col-
laboration for
better impact in
agriculture in
Ethiopia
Collaborative
activities imple-
mentation
Share experi-
ence and chal-
lenges
Celebrate suc-cess of BENEFIT projects
F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 8 V O U L E M 4 , I S S U E 2
Biannual
NEWSLETTER
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Participants of the field day visiting wheat cluster in Shimta Kebele
P A G E 2
CASCAPE Organized Farmers Field Day in collaboration with ………..
BENEFIT Partners Organized Farmers Field……...
The farmers’ day was opened with a welcoming
speech and remarks from Dr. Girmay G/Samuel,
CASCAPE Mekelle University Cluster Manager. After
welcoming the participants, Dr. Girmay remarked
that “this farmers’ day is a platform for farmers and
experts to help transform our agriculture and our na-
tional economy which could only be accelerated
through the active participation of smallholder farm-
ers as well as investors working in the sesame pro-
ducing zones”. He added “This year’s farmers’ day
will be an opportunity to familiarize new agricultural
innovations and farm practices in sesame production
and improving fertility of soil in the Woreda. Hence,
participant farmers and experts are expected to ex-
amine and take lesson from the new practices and
performance of sesame varieties and share your ex-
periences to your fellow farmers in your respective
Woredas and you are also expected to practice what
you witness today in the coming rainy season.
Therefore, I hope you will attentively follow the visit
and urge you to ask questions to the professionals
and researches who will give you explanations in to-
day’s farm visits”.
After the opening ceremony, activities visited by the
field day participants include CASCAPE’s QUEFTS cal-
ibration trial in Maikadra Kebele and Banat research
station, evaluation of the effect of ploughing time on
sesame yield and validation of QUEFTS fertilizer rec-
ommendation trial on two farmers’ fields (Tesfay
Areki and Keshi H/Mariam G/Hiwot) in Maikadra.
Briefing the field day participants, Ato Tesfay Areki,
the host farmer for the research on the effect of
ploughing time on sesame yield, explained the
clear advantage of ploughing right after crop har-
vest and repeated ploughing of the land before
sowing. CASCAPE’s Validating QUEFTS Fertilizer
Recommendation trial host, Keshi H/Mariam G/
Hiwot, on his side, gave vivid picture on the im-
portance of use of fertilizers and explained the per-
formance of different fertilizer types and rate using
different agronomic parameters. Keshi H/Mariam
summed up his satisfaction of his sesame field per-
formance by telling the participants “if you feed the
land it will feed you back”.
Shorima). The participants visited the trials and
forwarded their hope that they expect a good vari-
ety that can resist drought and disease would be
generated.
The second visit was made to fertilizer trials con-
ducted on farmers fields to exhibit the importance
of fertilizer as well as to decide the appropriate
amount of fertilizer rate and fertilizer type that
suits the specific soil type of the kebele. In this
case CASCAPE experimented this trial on farmers
field and the participants of the field day were able
to observe the difference among the field treated
with different amount of fertilizers. They also lis-
tened the witness of the farmers on whose plot
the experiment is done. The Fertilizer trials visited
were owned by Ato Haile Teka and Mengstu Arbse
The field day, in which 81 (24 female) people partic-
ipated, commenced after an opening speech from
CASCAPE manager Dr. Girmay G/Samuel. In his
opening remark, Dr. Girmay recommended farmers
to critically observe what was displayed and urge
them to adopt and use scientific methods of agricul-
tural practices and advised them to adopt new tech-
nologies and farming practices to realize food secu-
rity in the region.
The field day commenced with the visit to wheat
varieties adaptation trial in Shimta and Tahtay Haya
Kebeles. After a brief explanation on the purpose of
the adaptation trial from Ato Yemane G/Meskel
(CASCAPE researcher), the participants visited the 9
different wheat varieties (Mekelle-4, Honkolo, King-
bird, Ogolcho, Hidase, Mekelle-3, Wane, Lemu and
B I A N N U A L
N E W S L E T T E R
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The host farmers, Ato Tesfay Areki briefing the participants
BENEFIT Partners Organized Farmers Field ……..
P A G E 3 V O U L E M 4 , I S S U E 2
SBN activities visited include sesame production
using full package on two investors plots and sesa-
me row planting trial. The participants also visited
HuARC research station were several activities in-
cluding sesame PVS trial and sesame improved
seed multiplication have been carried out.
CASCAPE is working hand in hand with HuARC and
SBN to select varieties that can adapt to the farm-
ers demand (taking in to consideration productivi-
ty, marketability, farmers’ preference, adaptability
to environment and so on).
On October 1, 2017 the field visit continued in As-
gede Tsimbla Woreda of North Western Zone. The
activities visited in this Woreda were sorghum va-
riety adaptation trial carried out in collaboration
with ISSD and SBN in Selam and Hitsats. The oth-
er visit was made to Hitsats kebele FC where 19
different sorghum varieties were under PVS.
After the field visits, discussion was held in KuARC
assembly hall which was chaired by H.E Dr. Eyasu
Abraha, H.E Dr. Bekele Bulado, H.E W/ro Almaz
Messele as well as Ato Fissaha Bezabih. After wel-
coming the guests, Dr. Eyasu appreciated the
performance of the sesame crops despite the er-
ratic rainfall and credited the results to the farm-
ers, investors and agriculture experts. He then
extended his appreciation to BENEFIT partners
and The Royal Netherland Embassy for the budg-
etary support to conduct the successful research
activities. Then the discussion continued in which
farmers, investors and experts voiced their de-
mands to the federal government to work on im-
proving the marketing arrangements of sesame
in Shimta Kebele. The variety used was King-
bird. Each farmers’ plot was divided in to four
plots and treated with different rate and type
of fertilizer.
• No fertilizer
• Usual amount PSZ/DAP - 100kg, Urea-
100kg
• Innovation PSZ/DAP - 100kg, Urea-200kg
• Based on soil fertility DAP - 95kg, Urea-
145kg
Both farmers told the participants about the
CASCAPE Organized Farmers Field Day in collaboration with ………..
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H.E Dr. Eyasu Abraha Minister ministry of Agriculture chairing the discussion
Ato Mengistu Arbso explain the results of the treatments
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P A G E 4
CASCAPE Organized Farmers Field Day in collaboration with ………….
BENEFIT Partners Organized Farmers Field ……….
and requested assistance to the mechanization of
the production of sesame and other crops in the
zone.
Both the Agriculture and Trade Ministers stated that
the government had been working to solve the
marketing problem in sesame and had already is-
sued a decree last July and have pledged the par-
ticipants that the sesame marketing problem would
be solved as of this harvest season. They also reit-
erated that the government is working on mecha-
nizing the agriculture of the country through the
supply of loan to farmers and investors. They also
said that the government is working to facilitate the
export of sesame via the Sudan after the road to Ge-
darif is constructed.
Finally, the farmers field day and discussion was fi-
nalized by closing remarks from the Western Zone
Administrator Ato Esayas Tadesse in which he
thanked the Ministers, State Ministers, BENEFIT
partners and other guests for visiting the zone and
witness the contribution of the farmers and investors
in producing sesame and securing hard currency to
the country.
Extension Department Head Ato Girmay. Ato
Girmay, as an introductory to the discussion
thanked CASCAPE for all the research and capaci-
ty building activities accomplished in the woreda.
He stated that the wheat varieties under adapta-
tion trial, fertilizer recommendation trial, garlic
white rot disease management and scaling activi-
ties are contributing to the improvement of the
production and productivity of the agriculture ac-
tivities in the woreda.
In the discussion, farmers expressed their delight
on what they observed specially the situation of
the crops in Tahtay Haya despite the late arrival
and early exit of rain fall thanks to the soil and
water conservation activities accomplished by the
farmers and kebele administration. One im-
portant question raised by farmers in the meet-
ing was the doubt over crop rotation in terms of
improving soil fertility and preventing diseases.
Ato Alem G/Tsadik from CASCAPE, emphasized
that it is very important to rotate crops in order
to enhance soil fertility and break the cycle of soil
borne diseases.
The farmers day was closed by the remark from
the Woreda Administrator, Ato Woldu, who
thanked CASCAPE for the activities accomplished
in the woreda in research, scaling and capacity
building. He urged the farmers and experts to put
in to practice and scale up what they observed in
the farmers day. He specially gave a focus on ex-
perts to intensify support, follow up and help
farmers to adopt new technologies and help
farmers use fertilizer, improves seeds and herbi-
cides to protect their field from weed.
importance of using fertilizer and perceived that
there are signs that when the amount of urea is in-
creased the production also increases. Ato Haile
Teka in his own words told the participants “When I
use fertilizer in deferent rate and type, fellow farm-
ers used to tell me I had been fooled. But I used to
tell them it is good to try something new as per the
suggestion of the agriculture expert. Now farmers
can see how applying fertilizer can make a differ-
ence. You can see the clear difference among the
different rate and type of fertilizer application. Plat-
ing in row is also equally important and contribute
to the improvement of wheat production. My wife
and children also know the importance of row plant-
ing and are helpful in contributing labour during
planting.”
The third activity visited was wheat scaling in clus-
ters in Shimta and Tahtay Haya Kebeles. The visi-
tors were astonished by the performance of adja-
cent wheat fields and a short briefing was given by
the respective kebele DAs and CASCAPE experts on
the importance of cluster farming. The Kebele DA
mentioned that the wheat scaling in the kebele is
practiced using recommendation from CASCAPE.
The wheat cluster was sown on similar day using
row planting and the right amount of fertilizer was
used. The DA reported that some of the farmers
used chemical herbicide (called Palace) to kill weeds
and some used labour.
After the field visits the participants of the farmers
field day converged in Tahtay Haya kebele FTC to
wrap up the experience sharing visit. The discussion
was chaired by Dr. Girmay G/ Samuel, Endamehoni
Woreda Administrator Ato Woldu Teka and OoARD
B I A N N U A L
N E W S L E T T E R
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Mekelle University- CoDANR council members visited CASCAPE activities
P A G E 5 V O U L E M 4 , I S S U E 2
Wargba. Ato Solomon is working on orange, papayas,
dairy, peppers and tomatoes. Ato Desta likewise is
introducing computerized irrigation system and green
house supported production for vegetables. He has
also Begait dairy cows and sheep. The team has also
visited a lead farmer’s tomato farm organized in a
farmer’s field school by Hort-LIFE at Genete (Raya
Azebo Woreda). The project has introduced improved
management of tomato to the lead farmers (4) in
A Royal Netherlands Embassy Delegate includ-
ing guests from the foreign Ministry of the
Netherlands and manager of SNV in Ethiopia
paid a visit to the activities of the Dutch sup-
ported projects (CASCAPE, ISSD, SNV and
ATA) in southern Tigray from 19th to 20th Nov
2017.
The delegates visited warehouses in Alaje
woreda Aiba Kebele and Maichew town con-
structed by the financial support of ATA and
ISSD. The warehouses were constructed for
Birhan seed producer farmers group in Ayba
and Hadnet Raya Union in Endamehoni. The
capacity of the warehouses is 3,500 and
10,000 quintals, respectively. At the sites
wheat and Barley varieties scaled up by
CASCAPE and ISSD were displayed. In the
woredas, the guests also visited malt barley
adaptation trial by ISSD and scaling up of faba
bean using inoculants (Moti variety) and garlic
rot disease management by CASCAPE.
The Delegates visited private investors’ farms
in Raya Alamata Woreda including Ato Solo-
mon Ayalew at Gerjale and Ato Desta in
Royal Netherland Embassy Delegates visited Tigray Region
Mekelle University College of Dry Land Agricul-
ture and Natural Resources (CoDANR) council
members visited CASCAPE in Southern Zone of
Tigray Region from November 03 – 04, 2017.
A group of 11 management members including
college Dean Dr. Kidane Gidey, College Quality
Assurance (CQA) head, department heads, head
for research and community services and support
service team visited research and scaling activi-
ties in Raya Azebo, Ofla and Endamehoni
Woredas. The objective of the visit was to in-
crease the awareness of the college management
staff on the ongoing activities of the project and
get feedback for further improvement.
The college Council members and staff members
visited scaling up of Maradol papaya in Raya Aze-
bo Woreda Genete Kebele by a youth group. The
youth group has so far planted more than 7000
papayas (4000 seedlings last year which is at
fruiting stage now and 3000 in the 2009/10 rainy
season). Scaling up of Maradol papaya variety by
smallholder farmers was also visited at Wargba
Kebele of Raya Azebo Woreda.
In Ofla Woreda the council members visited
Pre_ Extension Demonstration (PED) of garlic
rot management in Hayalo Kebele. In the
same Woreda, wheat variety (9) adaptation
trial in Hashenge Kebele FTC was visited.
At Endamehoni Woreda wheat seed multiplica-
tion by two seed producer cooperatives and
wheat variety adaptation trial were visited in
Tahtayhaya Kebele.
The two days visit was concluded by holding
discussions with officials of the Endamehoni
Woreda Office of Agriculture and Rural Devel-
opment. The support of CASCAPE project was
elaborated by the perspective officials. The
officials also raise the scarcity of improved
seeds for wheat and faba bean for scaling.
At the end of the discussion, the College
Dean, Dr. Kidane, promised in collaboration
with other partners in the college to support
CASCAPE to strengthen its endeavors so that
the food security of the farmers in the project
area is achieved.
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The delegates visiting wheat variety adaptation trials
P A G E 6
Royal Netherland Embassy Delegates visited Tigray Region
Papaya Platform Workshop Held in Alamata
Aiming to bring together producer farmers, traders,
processors and other stakeholders and share ideas
on the problems encountered in production and mar-
keting of papaya, a workshop was organized on De-
cember 24, 2017 in Alamata Town.
The participants of the workshop were papaya grow-
er farmers, locally organized youth groups, seedling
producers groups, individual seedling producer farm-
ers, individual fruit traders, CASCAPE supported
youth group fruit traders, juice houses, investors,
WoARD, Alamata research centre, zonal AGP and irri-
gation directorate from BoARD. The total number of
participants was 53 out of which 8 were female.
The workshop started with an opening speech form
Dr. Girmay G/ Samuel and two general presenta-
tions. The first one was on experience of CASCAPE
Project in the introduction of maradol papaya to the
Woredas, management and propagation of papaya
and advantages of the new variety over the local
ones. The second presentation was on the im-
portance of platforms in market and value chain
development. The project’s experience in linking of
papaya grower farmers with market in Mekelle Uni-
versity was also presented.
After the presentations the participants split into
groups and discussed on major problem faced dur-
ing production and marketing of papaya. After the
group discussion the groups presented results of
respective group production and marketing con-
straints and proposed interventions.
The identified problems were assigned to the rele-
vant stakeholder to solve and to follow up the pro-
gress of the platform, the participants agreed to
assemble in April 2018. Finally, the workshop was
concluded by the remarks from Ato Berihu Arega-
wi, Irrigation Director of Regional BoARD, in which
he gave focus to the importance of fruits like papa-
ya and advised the participants to work on solving
the identified problems.
B I A N N U A L
N E W S L E T T E R
which the other members (30) learn all steps of
the agronomic practices from the lead farmers.
Following this, the team visited CASCAPE’s inter-
vention on enhancement of the livelihood of poor
women headed households through provision of
dairy goats. As a show case, W/ro Taemo’s house
was visited. She explained to the visitors that her
life has changed in five years after she started
dairy goat production provided by CASCAPE.
At the end of the visit the delegate discussed with
CASCAPE, ISSD and ATA on how the three Dutch
supported projects are collaboratively working to-
gether. After the detail discussion, the coordinators
of the three projects agreed for more engagement
for achieving a common goal in the region.
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The delegates visiting wheat variety selection trials
Dr. Girmay G/Samuel opening the papaya platform meeting
P A G E 7 V O U L E M 4 , I S S U E 2
vegetable specially in the southern zone of the region
and emphasized on the importance of increasing pro-
duction and productivity through introduction of best
practices and connecting the product to the market so
that producers can benefit to the maximum. After ac-
knowledging the importance of the workshop, Ato
Fisaha in his part emphasized the importance and
timeliness of the workshop as it can be used as an
input for the midterm revision of Growth and Trans-
formation Program plan of the region.
Then after, an overview of vegetable production in
Tigray was presented by Mizan Amare from TARI and
10 presentations were made on different topics. After
the presentations, general discussion was made
chaired by Professor Mitiku Haile. The participants dis-
cussed on:
Ways of improving seed shortage
Controlling pests and diseases
Solving market problems through market value
chain
Setting agro-processing facilities
using the underutilized small and medium dams
for vegetable production
CASCAPE Mekelle University in collaboration
with Tigray Agricultural Research Institute
(TARI) and Bureau of Agriculture and Rural
Development (BoARD) organized a regional
workshop to promote best practices on vege-
table production value chain in the region on
December 2, 2017. In the workshop 10 differ-
ent studies were presented by researchers
from TARI, Mekelle University and Axum Uni-
versity and detail discussion was made by the
participants. The workshop was organized with
the objective of creating a platform on vegeta-
ble production value chains and bringing to-
gether people from industry, academia, re-
search and government who are working in on
sector.
The specific objectives of the workshop were
to:
• Create a platform where available best
practices in vegetable production value
chains are identified, documented and dis-
seminated to stakeholders for future use.
• Highlight the critical importance of vegeta-
bles in Tigray and identify technologies for
vegetable production, marketing, storage,
transport and consumption thereby realize
the potential of vegetable production for
food and nutrition security as well as in-
come.
• Bring together people from industry, aca-
demia, research and government who are
working in vegetable sector.
The workshop was opened by Professor Fetien,
Mekelle University Vice President for Research
and Community services and Ato Fisaha Beza-
bih, Deputy Bureau Head of BoARD. In her
opening speech, Professor Fetien mentioned
the regional potential for the production of
CASCAPE- MU organized regional workshop on promotion of best practices in vegetable production and marketing value chain in Tigray, Ethiopia
Side by side to the presentations, 7 research findings
were presented to the participants in the form of post-
ers.
The one-day workshop was attended by farmers and
investors participating in vegetable production, Wore-
da irrigation experts from offices of agriculture, re-
searchers, BENEFIT partners in the region, officials and
experts from BoARD, bureau of trade and industry,
staff of Mekelle University, Axum University and other
projects and NGOs working in vegetable value chain.
Partial view of the vegetable workshop participants
Participants attending vegetable poster exhibition
P A G E 8
Training on Best-Fit Technology Testing provided to TARI
B I A N N U A L
N E W S L E T T E R
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Mekelle University CASCAPE conducted capaci-
ty development on enhancing the capacity of
Tigray Agricultural Research Institute (TARI)
in best-fit technology testing. To enhance the
capacity of TARI researchers and four centers
under the institute, ToTs supported by manu-
als were provided in 2017.
ToT on Mapping of Recommendation Do-
mains and Integrated Technology and BP
Validation
The training on GIS and Mapping of Recom-
mendation Domains and Integrated Technolo-
gy and BP Validation for Researchers was con-
ducted from November 03-07, 2017 for five
days in Wukro (Serdo Hotel). The trainees
(researchers) were drawn from three agricul-
tural research centers (Alamata, Shire-
Maitsebri and Humera) and two soil research
centers (Mekelle and Shire). The participants
of the training were 29 with background of
crop production, NRM, socioeconomics, mech-
anization and livestock.
The training on mapping of recommendation
domains was held for four days while the
training on integrated technology and BP vali-
dation was given for one day. The first training
was handled by senior researcher and GIS
professional, Dr. Atkilt Girma and Mr. G/
yohanes Zenebe from Mekelle University. The
second training was delivered by CASCAPE
Staff.
ToT for researchers on MonQIT and QUEFTS
The training on QUEFTS and MonQIt was conduct-
ed for three days (January 24-26, 2017). A total
of 33 researchers (1 female) including two centers
directors, senior researchers, associate research-
ers, researchers and junior researchers from two
soil testing laboratories and six research centers
have participated in the training.
The training session was divided in to two parts in
which the first day was allocated for QUEFTS while
the last two days was assigned for MonQIt train-
ing. The QUEFTS training was handled by Dr
Girmay G/Samuel. The trainees were first exposed
to an introductory course which included the ob-
jectives of the training and the importance of the
tool in agriculture. Various QUEFTS based re-
search findings from different scholars were pre-
sented to the researchers to create an impression
about the applicability of the tool.
Following the introduction, discussion was made
on the concepts of QUEFTS by focusing on the
four steps in using the QUEFTS model. To this ef-
fect, the QUEFTS tool box was installed on the PCs
of each training participant. With the close follow-
up and coaching from the trainers, the trainees
exercised the application of the tool in N, P and K
fertilizer recommendation for different crop types
and determining target yield levels under different
nutrient balances.
To support the researchers on the application of
the QUEFTS model a manual was distributed
which would be also used as a guide to organize
and cascade similar trainings by the trainees.
Researchers attending the training on QUEFTS
Trainees working on group works
Training on Best-Fit Technology Testing provided to TARI
P A G E 9 V O U L E M 4 , I S S U E 2
better impact and create better understanding about
aligned plan preparation.
The workshop was opened by Dr. Dawit, BENEFIT
manager. Dr. Dawit in his opening remarks noted the
importance of collaborative activities for better im-
pact in our agriculture intervention and to meet the
demand from the Embassy of the Kingdom of The
Netherlands. Hoping the workshop would come up
with better ways of collaboration and identify solu-
tions to overcome challenges, he announced the
workshop to be officially opened.
The participants of the workshop then attended the
presentation of the two regions’ collaborative activity
performance in 2017 and planned activities for 2018.
After the presentations the participants held discus-
sion on the activities accomplished and planned activ-
ities of respective regions. Challenged encountered
were raised and solutions were proposed by the par-
ticipants. After the feedbacks the participants split in
to their respective regions and worked on enriching
their 2018 collaborative plans.
The works shop was attended by BENEFIT partners’
National Management Unit Managers and experts;
Tigray and Amhara regions BENEFIT partners’ project
managers and experts.
Tigray and Amhara Regions BENEFIT partners
(CASCAPE, ISSD and SBN) conducted review
of 2017 collaborative activities and 2018 plan-
ning workshop from December 5 to 6, 2017 in
Mekelle, Desta Hotel.
The objective of the workshop was to review
collaborative activity accomplishment and
challenges faced in 2017 and prepare 2018
detail collaborative activity plan. Workshop
aimed at looking for ways of collaboration for
Mekelle Hosts BENEFIT Collaborative Activities Review and Planning Workshop
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handled by CASCAPE staff, Ato Yemane G/
meskel from CASCAPE. It was Explained that
MonQIt is a framework for monitoring farming
systems and for registration and bookkeeping
system. The tool helps to systematically de-
scribe and analyse complex farming systems
and it proves the necessity for interventions.
The MonQIt training focused on presentations
on concepts of MonQIt, MonQIt toolbox, de-
bugging, data analysis and on how to fill in a
MonQIt questionnaire. After thorough discus-
sion on the questionnaire and on how to inter-
view farmers, discussions were made on data
entry, data cleaning (debugging), data analy-
sis and reporting. MonQIt based processed
results of MU-CASCAPE was also presented to
the participants to understand its applicability
and use. As an exercise a previously filled in
MonQIt questionnaires was provided to a
group of three researchers to facilitate the exer-
cise on data entry. After data entry, the partici-
pants exercised data cleaning and processing of
the data. Representatives of the different groups
have also presented the interpreted reports of
the results of the processed data to the plenary.
The three days training on QUEFTS and MonQIt
was concluded by an oral evaluation of the over-
all training process by the participants and final-
ized by closing remark from TARI Deputy man-
ager in which he thanked CASCAPE for all the
efforts made to support TARI in capacity devel-
opment and serving as a bridge in linking the
institute with the Mekelle University and pledged
to further strengthen this good linkage to the
highest level.
BENEFIT partners of the two regions attending Tigray region annul report
Producer: Haile Kidane +251914768460 [email protected]
Editors: Girmay G/Samuel (PHD) +251914157189 [email protected]
Alem G/Tsadik +251914202459 [email protected]
Mekelle University CASCAPE (Capacity
Building for Scaling up of Evidence
Based Best Practices in Agricultural
Production in Ethiopia)