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The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency, known as TIKA, has set up a modern seedling production facility in Ethiopia in cooperation with Jimma University, aiming to support sustainable and climate-resilient coffee and fruit cultivation.
The facility was established under the Ethiopia Fruit Growing Support Project, which seeks to spread farming practices that can adapt to the effects of climate change while building up local agricultural capacity.
The model greenhouse will use modern propagation and grafting techniques to produce approximately 20,000 improved coffee, avocado and other fruit seedlings each year.
Grafting is an agricultural method that joins parts of two plants so they can grow together, often helping farmers improve plant quality, productivity or resilience.
Alongside seedling production, the facility will serve as a center where practical training, agricultural research and technology transfer activities can be carried out.
More than 300 farmers, university students and agricultural extension specialists will take part in training programs covering nursery management, grafting techniques, irrigation methods, soil improvement and seedling planting.
Agricultural extension specialists are professionals who pass research-based farming knowledge and practical techniques on to farmers and rural communities.
Through these hands-on programs, the project aims to help sustainable agricultural production take root more widely and strengthen local expertise in Ethiopia.
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