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SNV Ghana Agriculture April 8

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Sesame Value Chain Development Project Factsheet
Overview of Results Achieved in 2013
Coordinated by Issahaku Zakaria, March, 2014































Kofi O Boafo
Jr Business Development Advisor, Agriculture
SNV Ghana
Editor
Location: West Mamprusi and Chereponi districts, Northern region

Input
600 women with
increased incomes
110
communities
sensitized
230mt
of sesame
sold
400
men with
increased
incomes
GH725,750
($267,558)
mobilized from
sales of sesame
to open and
structured
markets
3,710kg
of improved
seed
supplied to
farmers
10
demonstration
field plots
established
1 year of
advisory
services in
partnership
with two LCBs
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SNV Ghana Agriculture April 8
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Two LCBs (Local Capacity Builders), NECIDA (North Eastern Corridor Integrated Development Agency)
and CBFP (Chera Bissi Fari) Project engaged to support the sesame value chain development. ***
1 year of advisory services**

Output
Capacity strengthening for 920 sesame farmers (561 women, 359 men) in West Mamprusi and
Chereponi districts.

Outcomes
Production
226mt of sesame produced
256 yield/acre
884 acres cultivated
3 products processed from sesame

Market Linkages and Revenue generated
Olam Ghana - 11.5mt of sesame valued at GH40,250
SATCO(Savannah Agricultural Trading Company) 140mt of sesame valued at GH490,000
Local Processors 2mt of sesame valued at GH7,000
Open markets - 72.5mt of sesame valued at GH188,500

Organization and Governance
Sesame production manual developed and used to train farmers
109 communities (14,296 farmers = 7074men, 7296 women) were sensitized on sesame
production and processing
27 participants MOFA(Ministry of Food and Agriculture)=4, LCB staff=10, lead farmers=10 and
SNV=3) benefited from sesame GAP trainings
5 field days organized for sesame farmers and stakeholders SARI(Savannah Agriculture
Research Institute), UDS(University of Development Studies), OLAM, the Media(GNA & GBC)
MoFA, NRGP)
36 enterprise sub- groups were formed from 48 already existing multipurpose co-operative
societies
Farmers trained on cooperative management and relationship management
District level commodity fair on sesame organized
3 entrepreneurship development training workshops organised for sesame producers
462 producers who understand basic business and financial concepts and management and
marketing skills
1000 producers trained on co-op development and Management


Infrastructural Development
10 demonstration field plots established in two districts
3,705kg of improved seed (S42 and Namsubani) was secured from Burkina Faso and Mali by
SNV and distributed to the 920 farmers


Impact/Outreach
Increased incomes and employment for 900 sesame producers.