Stakeholders Training to Enhance Farmers Participation Focusing on Wheat Value Chain: the case of Ambo District, Oromia, Ethiopia

Abstract

The study was carried out to assess the involvement of stakeholders' training to enhance farmers' participation focusing on the wheat value chain. The study has been conducted based on the information collected from 35 development agents, 35 smallholders, 2 Farmers’ Cooperative Union experts, and 1 Cooperative focal person. The study employed a mixed research method. Accordingly, the following results were found. Development agents provided different kinds of training for progressive and leader farmers. Cooperative delivered market-related information, agricultural inputs, and purchased agricultural outputs from smallholders. The wheat value chain was at the initial stage and the involvement of farmers was not satisfactory.