🔧⚙️🚜 In partnership with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and Ministry of Agriculture, Ethiopia, we distributed cutting-edge maintenance machinery worth 30 million ETB to 13 cooperative unions and mechanization centers across five regions: Amhara, Tigray, Oromia, South Ethiopia & Central Ethiopia. #Mechanization #Agricultural_transformation
Muse Mitiku
3d
Congrats!
Farhan Dawed
3d
Great news
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2dA remarkable doing that could address absence of maintenance and spare part delivering centers established in nearby and strategic locations, where most farmers located, remains a principal factor for very low adoption of mechanization innovations and interventions over several decades. This will also be an eye opening initiative that may ignite the motives and efforts of other relevant stakeholders to be part of it and put their finger prints in process of making mechanization sector to play a pivotal role for modernized and tranformed agriculture and food systems established in Ethiopia. Focusing on those interventions enhancing effective and efficient utilizations of collective actions in the context of smallholder agriculture (like farmers coops and unions) also made this initiative very interesting and to be the current agenda as well to every individuals in the country. I found every interventions of ATA/I practically so effective (e.g. strengthening agriculture-industry linkages via promoting contract farming, value chain development, strengthening rural youths engagement in service delivery along the mechanization value chains- youth groups engaged in deliverying chemical spraying services, agrochemicals supplies).