Africa RISING in Ethiopia organized a farmer’s field day event on 24 December 2020, in Bale, Oromia Region. The field day aimed to create awareness, measure the progress and get feedback on the ongoing food and forage crops technologies. Animal feed seed multiplication on farmers training centers as well as wheat clustered seed multiplication on seed producer's cooperative were included on the visit.

1. Photo report on farmers field day in
Sinana research site, Africa RISING
project
24 December 2020

2. Africa RISING in Ethiopia organized a farmer’s field day event on 24 December
2020, in Bale, Oromia Region. The field day aimed to create awareness, measure
the progress and get feedback on the ongoing food and forage crops
technologies. Animal feed seed multiplication on farmers training centers as well
as wheat clustered seed multiplication on seed producer's cooperative were
included on the visit.
Over 120 participants from university, cooperatives, regional, zonal and district
officials, development agents and model farmers have attended the field day. The
field day helped promote information exchange and technology transfer among
farmers and other stakeholders in agricultural development in the region.

3. The Malt barley Cv. HB1964 seed multiplication in collaboration with Berkume Oyora seed grower cooperative in Goba
district, member farmers and Africa RISING Site coordinator while explaining about the technology.

4. Mechanized harvesting of wheat and barley in Bale

5. Seko-Jafer seed growers cooperative member farmers, while uprooting off-types from bread wheat clustered seed
multiplication site in Selka.

6. Yabo Mohammed, a model farmer in Selka, while harvesting oat-vetch to feed his dairy cows

7. Abriham Getachew, development agent in Ilu-Sanbitu Kebele, while explaining about oat seed multiplication modality
introduced by Africa RISING on FTCs.

8. Yabo Mohammed, while feeding oat-vetch to his cattle using Africa RISING introduced feed trough at Selka Kebele.

9. Farmer chopping oat-vetch before feeding the livestock

10. Credits
Produced byAfrica RISING Project in Ethiopia
Compiled by Haimanot Seifu
Photos:Apollo Habtamu
Our appreciation goes to team members, local
partner organizations and the community of
Endamhoni district

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