Scaling up Sericulture Production

(FSRE-FUND)

By Asheafi Hailu

Presented at

EKN Learning Event

Ghion Hotel, Addis Ababa

Dec 16, 2015

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Bere Sericulture Production

Private Limited Company

Introduction

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Bere sericulture PLC is aimed at

Cocoon producing

Processing the cocoon

Silk production

Is a new technology to Ethiopian agriculture

Production of feed, rearing silkworms and processing

• Limitations

Finance

Production and processing skills

Processing machineries

With support of FSRE-Fund

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• Bere sericulture PLC intended to

Scaling up

Introducing sericulture technology

Silk production to farmers

Silk processing machines

Feed production and improvement

Create work opportunity

Improve food security

Financially empower women and youths

Market link

Local market and international

With support of FSRE-Fund

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Achievements

Bere scaled up

Silkworm rearing techniques

Feeding management

Silkworm disease prevention and control system

Cocoon pre and post harvest management

Seed preparation

With support of FSRE-Fund

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Bere Sericulture introduced new machines

Boiling

Steaming

drying

Reeling

Re-reeling

Twisting

With the help of FSRE-Fund

Drying Steaming

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With support of FSRE-Fund

Yarn scale Yarn scale

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With support of FSRE-Fund

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Cocoon Cooking

With support of FSRE-Fund

Boiling machine Re-reeling

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With support of FSRE-Fund

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Reeling machines

Winding, Twisting & Doubling

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With support of FSRE-Fund

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New buildings

Drying room

Reeling room

Spinning room

Training rooms

Trainings farmers and out-growers

147 farmers and out-growers trained

35 employees and 10 DA’s trained

Experience sharing

Farmers and out-growers

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Training

Training out growers and farmers

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Training of employees

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With support of FSRE-Fund

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Cocoon production introduced to farmers

67 out-growers started cocoon production

10 farmers started cocoon production

With support of FSRE-Fund

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Improved leave production

With support of FSRE-Fund

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Seed and larvae distributed to farmers

Castor & mulberry

Selected cocoon, egg & larvae

Feeding tray

Supply of cocoon by out-growers and farmers

On average 125 kg of cocoon per cycle

Farmers, women and youths generate income

Supported their food supply

Women started saving money….. Empowered

With support of FSRE-Fund

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Yarn produced by new machine

Marketing and product promotion

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….promotion….

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Market

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Before FSRE-FUND

only one buyer (Saba Hare PLC)

Today additional buyers introduced

Saba Hare PLC (from Canada)

Paradise fashion (local company)

Suzanne Said (from France)

Linkage was created with

Green Agricultural Science and Technology Co. Ltd

(China)

Silk Africa (South Africa)

Challenges

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Difficulties to additional land access

Lack of skilled personnel & outflow

Out-growers challenge

Organized into groups

Members of the group fail to take equal responsibility

Less production of cocoon

Long process in custom

It took more than 6 month to get machines from custom

authority

Solution to the challenges

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Company’s employee assigned to

Encourage & monitor out-growers

Promote and encourage farmers

Strongly working with agriculture office

In 6 potential villages

Providing

seed, larvae, cocoon and tray

Revising integration with

Arba Minch University

Arba Minch Research Institute

Bahir-Dare and Jima Universities

Solutions

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Future prospects

ICIPE will support the out-growers

Discussion with Chinese and Indian producer

Scalability of sericulture /prosperity/

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Linking out-growers with

ICIPE to assist out-growers

Higher educational institutions to their community service

activities

Government extension expertise

Diversifying and integrating multiple projects

Fish farming

Poultry

Apiculture

Solutions

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Testing the silkworm and feed for disease

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Than You!!