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The Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA), which was created after a conversation between Melinda Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), and the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in January 2009, gave rise to the Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI). During their talk, Meles requested the foundation’s support in identifying an innovative way to catalyze not only the growth but also the transformation of Ethiopia’s agriculture sector. The BMGF then facilitated a diagnostic study led by the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) that produced a series of recommendations to transform Ethiopia’s agriculture sector. The study identified a narrow approach to sectoral change and a lack of implementation capacity as key challenges that slowed down the growth of the Ethiopian agriculture sector. The establishment of an agricultural acceleration unit was proposed to address these systemic issues in the sector. In December 2010, the Council of Ministers in Ethiopia passed Regulation 198/2010, which established the ATA as the Secretariat of an Agricultural Transformation Council chaired by the Prime Minister. In December 2021, the ATA transitioned from an agency to an institute, placing greater emphasis on studies that aim to provide policy and system options to catalyze the transformation of Ethiopia’s agriculture. With the transition, the ATI is no longer a time-bounded organization, which was initially designed for a 20-year lifespan. The Institute was officially launched as a successor to ATA in June 2022. In its 13-year journey so far, the ATI has achieved significant results through identifying systemic bottlenecks, conducting studies, designing, piloting, and scaling up innovative projects, building the institutional capacities of the agriculture sector, and creating linkages within the agricultural sector and other sectors of the economy. In the past 14 years, the ATI, in its evolving role, has successfully implemented a variety of innovative and large-scale programs and projects.

  1. 2010
  2. 2011
  3. 2013
  4. 2015
  5. 2017
  6. 2019
  7. 2020
  8. 2021
  9. 2022
  10. 2023
  11. 2024

  1. Established

    ATI was Think tank and focused on solving complex problems or developing innovative ideas.
    In the first 18 months, the ATI ( formerly ATA) focused on operations, turning its mandate into specific sets of actions, and providing diagnostics support to identify the key bottlenecks that constrained the sector.

  2. EthioSiS

    An innovative project that collected soil samples nationwide covering 748 woredas, creating 22 property maps and generated tailored fertilizer recommendations.

  3. IVS

    An Input Voucher System that helped to address credit challenges for smallholder farmers; the project reached 9.5 Mn farmers across 600 woredas.

  4. TIRR

    The Teff Improvement Rows & Reduced Seed Rate project aimed to increase yield through improved varieties, modern planting methods, and regularly updated seed rates.

  5. ISGWID

    The Integrated Shallow Ground Water Irrigation Development project expanded ATI’s shallow ground water mapping nationally for sustainable irrigation and covered ~200 woredas; focusing on promoting business groups, high-value crops & energy-efficient water technology.

  6. ACC

    Agricultural Commercialization Clusters (ACC), a program that featured defined clusters focused on key commodities that excel on production and productivity covering 314 woredas across four regions and reaching 3.9 Mn farmers.

  7. System Integrator

    System Integrator ATI Focused on bringing together component subsystems & stakeholders to work together.

  8. Proclamation

    Following a proclamation in 2021, the ATA transitioned to an Institute to better meet the sector's need.

  9. DAEAS

    A nationwide study and roadmap that aims to digitalize the Ethiopian Ag. Extension & Advisory System through the dev’t of digital innovations, infrastructure and by creating an enabling environment.

  10. ADEY

    A program that aims to increase job creation in the agriculture sector across 8 regions; reaching ~800K youth & creating a total of ~600K jobs.

  11. DAR

    ATI spearheaded the development of the Digital Agriculture Roadmap with expanded scope beyond extension and advisory services.

ATI Selected Projects key achievement & milestones

  1. 2010
  2. 2012
  3. 2012
  4. 2014
  5. 2014
  6. 2014
  7. 2015
  8. 2016
  9. 2017
  10. 2018
  11. 2018
  12. 2018
  13. 2018
  14. 2020
  15. 2021
  16. 2023
  17. 2023

  1. Established

    ATI was Think tank and focused on solving complex problems or developing innovative ideas.
    In the first 18 months, the ATI ( formerly ATA) focused on operations, turning its mandate into specific sets of actions, and providing diagnostics support to identify the key bottlenecks that constrained the sector.

  2. DMS

    - DSM scaled up from 33 woredas in 2013 to 320 woredas in 2020 across the four regions(Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and former SNNPR).
    - Had trained 1620 marketing agents in seed business management and engaged in seed marketing and 2000 Woreda experts and officials on basics of DSM and core principles.
    - 50 seed producers and 1,620 marketing agents(1090 Cooperatives, 465 Privates and 65 organized youths) have been able to directly supply 49,516 tons of improved seeds to over 1.95 million SHFs that are worth more than ETB 1.72 billion across the four regions in 320 woredas
    - Through the project intervention, improved seeds of different crop types and varieties sold was only 8,619 tons in 2014 which had increased to 49,516 tons in 2020, supplied to over 1.95 million SHFs worthing over 1.72 billion ETB .
    - At the end of the project(2020) a total of 500,749 Qts of improved seeds of different crop types were supplied and 495,160 Qts were sold to over 1.95 million SHFs; worthing 1.72 billion ETB.
    - 4 million households accessed improved inputs
    - DSM technical guidelines have been developed with the capacity of regional and federal input marketing experts and have been used as an inception point while developing seed marketing directive which has been endorsed by ministry of Agriculture(2018).
    - 4000 jobs created

  3. ETHIOSIS

    - Household use of NPS for priority crop production is more than 5 times more likely due to the ATI, and over ten times more likely due to ATI fertilizer and extensions projects, as compared to not using any chemical fertilizers.
    The soil surveying and mapping exercise conducted by the EthioSIS initiative has been the central input to produce geo-referenced, crop specific Fertilizer recommendations for producers across the country.

  4. 8028

    - Currently the platform is providing its service on 21 agronomic, 6 livestock, and basic financial literacy, through six languages (Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrigna, Sidamigna, Wolaitigna and Somaligna) via the 8028-toll free short code.
    - Additionally, extension package is developed and made ready for Fisheries, Aquaculture, Forage production, Forage seed, Banana, Avocado, Mango, soyabean, Irrigation wheat, Sunflower and Field pea to be used in the hotline(8028).
    - A total of 6.9 million users were registered and have accessed the contents from the hotline more than 66 million times
    - A total of more than 66.5 million calls have been made to the hotline system for crops advisory, livestock advisories, financial literacy, and Covid 19 service inquiries from all over the country
    - More than 8.8 million early warning messages have been broadcasted for farmers and development agents to inform, advise or warn them about the occurrence of crops disease and pest infestations, nutrition messages, and other crop calendar-based messages.
    - Through its helpdesk, the hotline was able to receive over 27,000 distinct questions from farmers at ATI’s ACC 300 woredas.
    - Through incorporation of IVR/SMS survey module into the 8028 Farmers Hotline system over 1.5 million surveys were made on the occurrence of diseases like Wheat rust and fungi, and pests like fall armyworm and desert locusts, and related others.
    - The 8028 FHL has helped to increase household and family resilience by providing farmers with information about market prices, and other factors that can affect their livelihoods.
    The 8028 FHL is a digital advisory platform designed for disseminating agronomic practices and related information year-round to farmers. The platform is intended to improve the flow and delivery of agricultural information between partners implementing farmer-targeted interventions, and farmers that these interventions are intended to benefit. The project commenced as pilot in 2014 in its 1st phase of implementation period. The 2nd phase of the project will extend up to mid-2025. The 8028 Farmers Hotline was piloted for five-month pilot program in 21 woredas (districts) in the four major regions( Oromia, Amhara, former SNNP, and Tigray regions).

  5. CBSP

    - At the beginning of the project, there was only one union that can produce, process, and market seed on its own in targeted five (Oromia, Amhara, Central Ethiopia, South Ethiopia, and Tigray) regions
    - But through the project intervention and intensive support provided, 14 CBSP unions with affiliated 196 primary cooperatives that involved 17,733 (2658 women) were successfully transformed and able to independently produce and market quality seed meeting input regulatory requirements.
    - To strengthen the physical capacity of CBSP unions and local private seed producers: The following supports were provided and availed on cost sharing approach (70% ATI(sub-grant) and 30% unions(matching fund)).
    - Construction of eight office buildings,
    - 13 seed processing plants, - Construction of 29 seed storages ,
    - Construction and equipment of 12 mini seed laboratories,
    - Construction of 3 diffused light stores,
    - 1 potato lath house, 9 training centers,
    - 7 tractors, 7 field vehicles,
    - Provision of 5 truckers
    - Provision of 17 motor bikes
    - Technical capacity development 18,191 (3,171 women) farmers and 734 (97 women) experts and leaders from union/government offices, have got experience sharing, and technical backstopping on seed production, business management, leadership, governance, seed cleaning machine operation, and seed laboratory operation.
    - With the intervention of the project:
    - Of the total 14 CBSP, 11 CBSP unions able to access finance for seed aggregation through regional credit guarantee system/loan from commercial banks,
    - 14 CBSP unions able to access the market through direct seed marketing system/regional area allocation for seed distribution,
    - 14 CBSP unions able to access Early Generation Seed (EGS) through self-production/ contractual based EGS production.
    - 18,191 (3,171 women) SHFs and 350 (49 women) experts from unions and government offices were provided with capacity building and know-how on quality seed production and post-harvest handling.
    - High quality farmers’ training modules for seven (maize, wheat, barley, teff, potation, faba bean, and haricot bean) crops in three (Amharic, Afan Oromo, and Tigrigna) local languages were developed and published by ATI and 4,000 copies printed and shared to the 14 respective CBSP unions.
    - During the start of the project the annual seed production and supply by CBSP unions was less than 10,00 quintals per year. Currently the annual seed production and supply by CBSP unions and local private seed producers supported by ATI has reached 123,000 quintals which covers on average about 17% of national seed supply.
    The project aimed to transform Ethiopia’s intermediate seed sector to significantly increase the quality and volume of improved seeds produced and marketed through unions and local private seed producers, resulting in higher yields and income of farmers. It commenced as pilot in 2014 in the 1st phase of implementation period. The 2nd phase of the project will extend up to mid-2025. From the total project beneficiaries about 17% direct beneficiary of the project are women.

  6. ATIP

    - Through the project about 2 billion ETB market linkage has been created.
    - Through working with the Ministry of Trade, Ministry of Industry, and other partners and the project has facilitated and organized more than nine trade fairs and Trade missions which have generated a total Export Contract value of $ 464 Million.
    - Through ATI engagement via the ATIP project ,The French Groupe Souflett has invested 60M Euros in Bole Lemi Industrial Park, Boort Malt has invested 50M Euros in the Debre Berhan Industrial Park to build a malt processing factory.
    - The investments have created a market linkage for malt barley sourcing for more than 125,000 smallholder farmers in the Agricultural Commercialization Cluster (ACC).
    Its goal is create a market for smallholder farmers thereby improving the livelihoods and income of SHFs in the ACC. At the same time to create reliable demand sinks, connecting Ethiopia agribusiness to global food markets, enhancing investment in agro-processing, facilitating technology transfer and employment generation, and improving the overall investment ecosystem for agro-processors. The project is based at Addis Ababa, ATI HQs and work in four major regions ( Oromia, Amhara, Tigray, and former SNNP).

  7. ISGWID

    - The project has enabled 77 Enterprises (MSMEs) to have been trained on well drilling techniques.
    - It has provided about 2,500 well-drilling services to SHFs to produce high value crops and marketing.
    - 59 Enterprises (MSMEs) have been trained in manual pump manufacturing and started manufacturing of 1779 Manual pumps and provided maintenance service to SHFs.
    - Through the project intervention 153,148 hectares of land were covered with selected high value crops produced and marketed 10,709,959 quintals of high value crops productions.
    - The project has mapped 234,772 km², which showed that 27.27 billion cubic meter available shallow groundwater (recharge) quantified and qualified in the project areas which can irrigate 3,088,395 hectares of land and benefiting 6,176,898 households.
    - Capacity building activities on radar technology and advanced remote sensing, utilizing high value crop (HVC) selection tools and preparation of cropping calendar, operation and management of Solar powered irrigation pumps and drip systems have been provided to Ministries (MoWE and MoA) and Regional Irrigation offices and cascaded to zones and woredas.
    - 30 woredas have been targeted through the SGWM intervention and thus, 213,840 farmers have adopted irrigation technologies and sustainable practices on 153,148 hectares of land, primarily growing high-value crops.
    - To provide firsthand results and create awareness for the stakeholders, integrated national groundwater resource map developed, 263 shallow ground water Atlases are produced, published & distributed to 193 woredas through training and workshops.
    - In collaboration with Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity (MoWIE), sophisticated and comprehensive groundwater database procured, installed, and established.
    Accordingly, Hydro-Geo Analyst software was installed at ATI head office and MoWE servers as tool to strength groundwater database management.
    - With capacitating woreda experts on defining HVC tools, localized cropping calendar development, irrigation water management and irrigation agronomy and more than 153,148 hectares of land have been covered with selected high value crops produced and marketed 10,709,959 quintals of high value crops products.
    - The project has constructed five zero energy cool chambers (ZECC) in Amhara, Oromia and former SNNP regions to demonstrate technology that helps to minimize post-harvest loss.
    The goal of the project is to contribute to sustainable production, productivity and income for all male and female smallholder farmers through increased irrigation practices and irrigable area. The project has been focusing on 30 woredas in Oromia, Amhara, Tigray and former SNNP regions

  8. EAAP

    - A subgrant of Birr 6,743,000 .00 is disbursed among 8 input suppliers in the southwest region of Ethiopia (Oromia and SNNP) where most of the incubation/ acceleration track reside for honey and wax collection.
    - Twenty incubates have received Birr 28,216,825 subgrant from EAAP project among which 6 were females. These beneficiaries have traded 201.14 MT of honey in domestic market which has a value of Birr 30,173,683.00
    - In total 4734 transitional and 2629 improved hives have been distributed in the 3 project regions for 2000 beekeepers on revolving fund modality. Furthermore, improved beekeeping equipment like wax molders, honey extractors, honey refractometers, honey containers, etc
    - With the help of ATI, 656.52 Mt of honey and 115.5 MT of wax valued Birr 106,912,179 was traded both in domestic and export market during the implementation period sourced from project woredas. From this traded commodity, 115.5 MT of Wax and 571.58 MT of honey valued USD 2,334136.00

  9. NMIS

    - About 311 woredas have been piloted and covered by the project of which about 65 % are from the ACC woredas whereas the remaining woredas are reference markets in the bigger town around the ACC woredas across focusing on major prioritized crop commodities.
    - More than 1.6 M users are registered to the hotline.
    - More than 240,00 weekly market data on 19 agricultural crop commodities from 311 marketplaces (were collected and stored in the platform. Of these, more than 225,000 have been validated and disseminated via 6077 hotlines, the website (nmis.et), and e-mail to users.
    - More than 8.5 M calls have been received from users to access market information from the system platform via the 6077 short codes in three languages (Amharic, Afan Oromo and Tigrigna).
    - 316,250 promotional materials were printed and distributed to market actors and other value chain actors to access market information from the system platform
    - Capacity building training have been provided for 950 (340 women) data enumerators from Amhara, Oromia, South Ethiopia, Central Ethiopia, Southwest Ethiopia, Sidama, and Tigray regions on marketing, market information system, open data kit (ODK) applications
    The main goal of the project is to develop an ICT-based market information system to provide accurate, reliable, transport, and relevant market information and secure better prices for their produces, addressing the lack of timely market information for small-holder farmers. The system mainly uses open Data Kit (ODK) based mobile applications to timely collect and directly transfer collected market data from all markets to the system by automatically capturing the geo-tag of the marketplaces. On other hand, the hotline (6077 short code) is mainly used for disseminating the validated market information. It has been implemented in marketplaces from Amhara, Oromia, former SNNP and Tiray regions.

  10. MSC

    - The project has supported the establishment of 9 MSCs in Oromia, Amhara and former SNNPR regions whose construction is already completed.
    - The constructed MSCs were provided and supported with the mechanization services for tillage, spraying, harvesting, threshing, and transporting purposes using new and available machinery fleet.
    - ATI has released a total of 172 million ETB sub grant funds (70% of the total construction cost) for the construction of these 9 MSCs.
    - Thus, a total of 137,015 farmers (16% women) obtained mechanization services during the project implementation periods.
    - As per the project terminal report, the use of mechanization services saved SHFs time by 91% and minimized the labor cost they used to pay by 86%, substantial portion of SHFs reported minimized post-harvest loss by 45%, increased production quantity by 42%, income increased by 33% and improved production quality by 25%.
    - A total of 137,015 farmers obtained mechanization services from nine mechanization service centers(MSCs) supported by the ATI.
    The main goal of the project is to provide small holder farmers access to affordable, fee based agricultural mechanization services, in key value chain activities such as ploughing, planting, cultivation, harvesting/threshing, through high quality machinery and competent operators at affordable prices. It has been implemented in the four ACC regions(Oromia, Amhara, Tigray and former SNNP).

  11. AOSS

    - As per the mid-term household survey, the percentage of improved seeds increased to 63% from 45% before the project in the intervention woredas for all the major crops.
    - Resulted in income increment from a baseline ETB 29,085 to ETB 50,746 i.e. almost doubled in the intervention woredas
    - During its scale up the project has established an input market system/329 AOSSs (71% through matching funding with the Sub-Grant by disbursed about ETB 212 million whereas 29% as self-finance in intervention woredas.
    - Thus, 329 AOSS centers and shops have been networked and linked with national and multinational agro-input manufacturers, importers and wholesalers
    - Capacity building training has been provided for 2,800 AOSS owners & respective technical teams :
    - business management , marketing and entrepreneurship,
    - inventory and working plan management, accounting reporting
    - technical training on input sourcing, stocking, dispensing, environmental compliance, input licensing, agronomic services, input demand assessment, livestock inputs stocking and administration, farmers training and farm demonstration, handling and storage of agrochemicals and veterinary drugs to safeguard potential negative impacts on the environment and human health.
    - The project has made improved access to input and servicing by registering 13 million SHFs’ transactions during the project period implying an average of 2.6 million annual transactions.
    - With the project implementation in the intervention areas access to vet drugs, chicken breeds and artificial insemination has increased to 47, 15.8 from its baseline value of 38, 5.9
    - Through the project intervention a total of 3,224 (36% women -full time employment) have been employed at AOSS centers.
    The main goal of the project is to contribute to creating access market oriented agricultural inputs and services delivery systems to SHFs across ATI regions to improve the productivity, food security, incomes, and service provision to smallholder farmers. Thereby providing sufficient agricultural input and services for smallholders’ farmers in proximity, at the right time, at a competitive price and of good quality. It has been aiming to consolidate existing retail models to create a consistent and quick path to network scale-up to 300 ACC and 11 non-ACC woredas in Oromia, Amhara, Tigray, Sidama, Southwest, South and Central Ethiopia).

  12. GFPC

    - 2.46 million SHFs have been registered at 99,000+ clusters engaging in ACC grain production activities on 1.99 million hectares of land under clusters at RATCs.
    - In the project intervention areas on average, the productivity of major grain crops increased significantly: Malt barley: +15%, Maize: +17%, Wheat: +15%, Teff: +15% and sesame +8%.
    - The contribution of the marketable surplus from the FPC-participating farmers currently accounts for 63% of the total marketable surplus for the ACC achievements.
    - On an annual basis, there has been a remarkable 33% and 51% increase in the number of farmers who accessed fertilizer and quality seeds respectively among the SHFs in intervention woredas.
    - Over 44% (more than 1 million) of FPC farmers have been enabled to have accessed both pre and post mechanization services for their farming operations
    - 54 tractors were supported to model FPC’s farmers
    The goal of the project is to improve the productivity and marketable surplus of key grain crops for smallholder farmers through a recommended "full package" approach.

  13. HFPC

    - Over 187 full package demonstrations were conducted on different priority horticultural crops (tomato (106), onion (45) and avocado (36)) at different locations of ACC woredas to increase the adoption of new horticulture production technology.
    - 102,200 SHFs have been registered and organized under 1617 HFP clusters covering 24, 211 hectares with HFPC priority commodities.
    - Has established and upgraded about 21 fruit nurseries from which 931,250 seedlings of different fruits (avocado, mango and banana) were distributed to smallholder farmers
    - 931,250 seedlings of different fruits (avocado, mango and banana) were distributed to smallholder farmers through the project intervention.
    - Accordingly, about 77,800 smallholder farmers have got access to improved seedling/seed in the project life.
    - The productivity of five-priority commodities has increased. As per the ESS data(2021/22) avocado, Banana, mango, tomato and onion production were 70.5 quintals/ha, 155.4 quintals/ha, 59.1 quintals/ha, 68.6 quintals/ha, 70.3 quintals/ha respectively.
    - As of the project terminal report, the productivity of these five-priority commodities has shown significant increment per yield in 2024/25.
    Accordingly, Avocado , Banana, mango, tomato and onion productivity have increased to 365 quintals/ha, 535 quintals/ha, 361 quintals/ha, 649 quintals/ha and 255 quintals /ha respectively compared to the ESS data of 2021/22.
    - To address postharvest loss among the horticulture value chain the project has implementation of low-cost storage facilities.
    Accordingly, it has constructed 64 zero energy cooling chambers (2 by OATC in Oromia, 7 by AATC in Amhara, 55 by SATC in former SNNP) in model farmers’ farm for demonstration.
    - The Zero energy cooling chamber (ZECC) retains the quality and extends the shelf life of high value horticultural commodities by reducing the temperature and keeping the humidity high for the producers.
    - To improve access to the market for FPC farmers, the HFPC project had also constructed 10 roadside market shades and collection and aggregation centers (five in Oromia, three in Amhara and two by SATC in Sidama. The facilitates enhance their access to market because they bring their products to the center (Figure 11) so that the buyers can get a chance to purchase the produce from the centers very easily.
    - The export of avocado and bananas was facilitated by the project at two regions (Oromia and Amhara). Accordingly, 5761 quintals of avocado (Oromia and Amhara) and 600 quintals of banana (Oromia) were exported into international and regional market respectively.
    The project has been implemented in Oromia, Amhara, Tigray, Sidama, South Ethiopia, central Ethiopia Southwest regions. The project has been implemented from 2018- to 2025 at 17 woredas in five regions(Oromia, Amhara, Tigray, Sidama and South Ethiopia on five-priority commodities(Avocado, Banana, Mango, Tomato and Onion).

  14. AgriHub

    - The project has provided Business Development Services(BDS)/trainings and access to finance support in Oromia, Amhara, Tigray and former SNNPR for 936 SMEs staffs through engaging 2373 individuals owners of SMEs of which 37% and 85% were women and youth respectively.
    - The project has enabled 7,703,689 SHFs to be benefited from the SMEs services
    - The project has made 4003 direct job creations
    - SMEs were enabled to get loan access amounting 3,162,450,000 Birr from Financial institutions (CBE, Awash bank, Abay bank, DBE, RuSACCO, COOP bank).
    The project has been implemented from 2020 to 2025 at RATCs: Amhara, Oromia, Tigray, and former SNNPR (Sidama, South West and Central and South Ethiopia) as part of ACC initiatives.

  15. ISSSE

    - One internal total seed quality management and five variety maintenance procedure guidelines published, and 82 researchers and seed producers trained on these guidelines
    - Five seed cleaning machines procured and installed at regional and federal seed producing research centers, to enhance early generation seed quality
    - Farm machinery spar parts (costed about 10 million) procured and provided to seed producing ARCs, which enable them to operationalize idle farm machineries and so contribute to enhance EGS production
    - Two seed stores constructed at federal ARCs and three seed stores re-innovated at regional ARCs
    - Revolving fund modality and business model developed, to enable reinvestment of EGS revenue for sustainably enhancing early generation seed production and quality
    - Seed laboratory equipment’s seed producing centers assessed and calibrated
    - 8,603 qt early generation seed and 78,216 seedlings produced and distributed to demanded stallholders
    - seven PhD (four of them female) and ten MSc candidates studying on seed science, of these two MSc already graduated and back engaged in their duty
    - Web based application for EGS tracking and marketing operationalized, which is contributing on narrowing the EGS demand and supply gap
    - Seed proclamation, variety licencing directive and plant breeders’ right proclamation, ratified and approved, other six directives and regulations undergoing for approval
    - seventeen DUS and NPT protocols developed and validated
    - A total of 1055 of which 182 female seed experts and inspectors trained on seed quality assurance
    - Twenty-three crop variety seed quality standards updated
    - One national seed laboratory of has become international seed testing Association (ISTA) member and to be accredited
    - Three grow out test (GOT) sites under establishment at three regions
    - Illegal seed trade of six regions (68 woredas) surveyed and reported

  16. FARM

    - The FARM project reached 292,933 targeted beneficiary farmers (25.7% female) through the distribution of 40,141.7 quintals of improved seeds of cereals and pulses in 55 selected project woredas of Amhara and Tigray regions, and 10 non-project Woredas of Amhara region. Out of the total crop seed supported by the project, 22,800.7 qts was distributed to 196,919 beneficiaries in Amhara region, while the remaining 17,341 qts seed distributed to 96,014 beneficiaries in Tigray region.
    - About 13,255.2 hectares of land has been covered with cereals and pulses in the cropping season 2024. Generally, a total of 75,969.2 hectares of land were covered by the distributed six crop types and fourteen different varieties.
    - With the crop seed support, effort was made to introduce the revolving seed approach to alleviate the prevailing local seed shortages and enhance the project effectiveness. In the period of July 08, 2024 to January 07,2025, 1,210.8 quintal of wheat and teff was collected through the revolving approach and distributed to 6,289 beneficiaries of Tigray region. In total, 9,607.8 quintals of revolved seeds were distributed to 90,791 beneficiary farmers.
    - In Livestock support, between July 08, 2024, to January 07,2025, in the Amhara region,193,631 Koekoek chicken (45-days old) and 7,902 sheep and goats were distributed to 9,681 and 2,634 beneficiaries, respectively. Previously, a total of 153,338 chicken (45-days old) has been distributed to 7,942 target beneficiary farmers in Amhara and Tigray regions. All in all, 346,969 45 days old pullets were distributed to 17,623 beneficiaries and 14,961 sheep and goats were distributed to 4,987 beneficiaries
    - Irrigation and horticultural support are also another project metrics. Between July 08, 2024 to January 07,2025, 100,000 fruit tree seedlings (70,000 for Amhara and 30,000 for Tigray (Papaya, avocado, apple and banana) were procured and distributed to 8,859 beneficiaries in Amhara and Tigray. Moreover, 706 kilogram of hybrid vegetable seeds (tomato, onion, pepper, cabbage) and open pollinated seeds (carrot and beet root) were procured: for Amhara, 354.7 kg of vegetable seed was distributed for 7,407 beneficiaries; the remaining 351.3 vegetable seed were distributed to 7,300 households.

  17. ADEY

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