Community Driven Rural Development (CDRD FUNDED BY: BMZ (GERMAN CORPORATION
The college in collaboration with Save the Children International (SCI) with funding from GIZ conducted training to 75 (48M, 27F) Agricultural advisors in Magwi County drawn from Three (3) payams of Obbo, Pajok and I wire with The training aims at equipping the field agricultural extension workers to develop and use simple techniques and various communication skills during extension work through creating awareness and to enable the extension workers learn the basic knowledge and skills in participatory extension in agriculture through sharing of field experience. empowering and strengthening advisory capacities of the selected Agricultural Advisors in the agricultural sector to bridge the gap of limited delivery of agricultural extension services in smart climate-friendly agricultural production, post-harvest techniques, awareness on disaster risk reduction, marketing and value chain promotion to increase productivity and incomes. The below are the major topics
- ToT in Participatory Extension
- Business skills, business plan and market system
- Environmentally and Climate Smart Agriculture
- Overview of smart climate environment
- Main elements of smart climate agriculture
- Farming system.
- Ecosystem
- Existing crop production situation.
- Site selection techniques
- Environmentally friendly land clearance techniques.
- Environmentally friendly land preparation techniques.
- Timely planting and planting techniques.
- Timely and proper weed control techniques.
- Timely and proper harvesting and post-harvest handling practices.
- Farming as a business