September 2006 Volume 1 Issue 4 Unsubscribe  Subscribe  Archive

IPMS Credit Fund Launched
The latest IPMS initiative in market-oriented development is an innovative credit fund that will be provided to... more

IPMS project sponsors over 100 BSc/MSc students…
Female candidates make up about 44 percent of the student pool. IPMS also provided support to 13 students (3 female) to undertake their MSc thesis research on the priority commodities and issues important to ... more

IWMI Provided Short-Term Training on Agricultural Water Management
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in collaboration with IPMS organized a training on Agricultural Water Management for improving productivity of smallholder farming. The training was held in Bahir Dar from... more

Input Supply and Rural Finance
We find that considerable variations exist in the input supply and rural finance services among the PLWs and Regions. The role of the OoARD in producing supplying and distributing inputs varied considerably... more

Addressing HIV/AIDS issues in IPMS PLWs
As a practical model of the mainstreaming process gender and HIV/AIDS action plans were developed by partners around priority agricultural commodities. For example in Mieso participants identified the gender dimensions in... more

Privately-owned bull station service started in Ada’a Woreda...
The current bull service at Godino is Birr 20 per mating and about 50 mating per bull are expected in a given year. This will result in a gross annual income of about Birr 1000 per bull. When the bulls get older they will be castrated and fattened for the slaughter market and will fetch about Birr 5000 per animal... more

Live Animals Marketing in Four Regional States...
While producers are positive about the role and involvement of brokers in the livestock market in some market places (e.g. Mieso) broker involvement is seriously resented in ... more

Dairy processing – Does it pay?
In order to improve the livelihood of dairy farmers in some of the IPMS Woredas small scale dairy processing has started usually with the help of the Woreda Cooperative Offices. A rapid assessment of this intervention was made recently in ... more

Lake Tana Fish Marketing System Study...
An IPMS initiated study on fish marketing systems took place in June 2006 by a team from the Fisheries Research Unit on Lake Tana Fogera Woreda Office of Agricultural and Rural Development (WoARD) and the WorldFish Center. This study came about ... more

Innovative Milk Marketing Arrangements in Ude Peasant Association
The Ada’a Woreda Office of Agriculture and Rural Development with the help of IPMS facilitated a market linkage with the Ada’a Dairy Cooperative whose facilities are in Debre Zeit town 10 km from Ude.... more


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Milk is collected from stations by the Cooperative twice a day with a low cost transport vehicle

     Upcoming events

IPMS workshop on innovative service delivery... more

Additional two PLWs program launch ... more

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