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Post Harvest Training Activities in Ethiopia

PEF Closing Workshop at Kigali, Ruanda

By Gerefa Sefu

July 2018

Kigali Ruanda

Introduction

➢Bahir Dar Institute of Technology (BiT) has over 5

decades of experience in providing training and research

and community service in various areas of technology.

➢Currently, there are 5 faculties in Institute offering B.Sc.,

M.Sc. and PhD in the regular, summer and distance

education programs.

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Faculty of Mechanical

and Industrial

Engineering

Faculty of Civil and

Water Engineering

Faculty of chemical and Food

Engineering

Faculty of Electrical and

Computer Engineering

Faculty of Computing

and Computer

Cont…

➢ Faculty of chemical and Food Engineering

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Department of Food

EngineeringDepartment of Chemical Engineering

Department Applied Human

Nutrition

Department of Post Harvest

Management

Cont….

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Research and

community service

Teaching and

advising

Management

Advertising committee

Department of Post Harvest

Management

Facilities We Have

➢Laboratories

❖Food process lab

❖Microbiology

❖Analytic chemistry

❖Research grade lab

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Focus

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Photo: Aditya Parmar

Postharvest losses

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Activities Done

➢Teaching

❖Delivering course (Post Harvest)

❖Advising students on their project work

❖Writing proposal

❖Participating on assigning from Institution

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Cont…

Curriculum development by

❖Gerefa Sefu

❖Dr. Solomon Workneh

➢ 23 students registered for the program from different

organization like

• Research centers

• Universities

• Agriculture office

➢The first batch six students under the program are on their

way to thesis work

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Conference Hosting

❖Chaired by Dr. Solomon and

❖Secretarial by Gerefa Sefu

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Objectives

➢Advertising program

➢Aware policy makers about PHLM

➢Availing platform for the linkages

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Postharvest conference PHLM 2018

➢ For this conference there were 9 research papers with

different topics and two plenary speakers

➢Different guests have been invited from different sectors

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PHLM 2018

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Challenges

➢ 67 organization contacted

❖Instability cited as reason for lack of participation

➢Only 2 organizations have sponsored us: Cascape & BiT

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Field Research

❖By Gerefa Sefu

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Community Service

❖Gerefa Sefu

➢ Production of mango pickles from raw mango fruit

❖100 local females have been selected

❖The training will be given in 4 terms

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Meeting with PEF at Jimma Univ

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PEF E-learning Graduation

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PEF

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Meeting Dr. Adel A Kader (2012)

The End!!!

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