Capacity Building Training for Cotton farms in Ethiopia

The Partner Africa Ethiopia Project implemented consecutive Training of Trainers for farmer field schools in Arbaminch and Wolayita Zones over the past year in Ethiopia. The training is aimed to create awareness and improve the capacity of farmers for sustainable production of organic cotton.

The ToT training has been carried out on the fields in different Woredas benefiting 11 farmer field schools, local farmers, development agents and cooperatives. The training focused on seed preparation and distribution, sawing, pest management and control, harvesting, cotton handling and production process suitable for the sustainable production of organic cotton among others

The Partner Africa Ethiopia Project in collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture implemented a total of 8 awareness creation workshop to improve and expand the production of quality organic cotton in the region. A total of 64 development agents, 40 experts and 500 local farmers have benefited from the capacity building training so far