Starting construction of the chick pea factory and increasing ckickpea and wheat supply to the union

Becho Woliso has implemented action plan 2015 adequately. Main achievements were the internal capitalization process. 11.8 million ETB has been mobilized for the upcomming investment in chick pea processing. Though output marketing figures of the Union and PCs slightly increased (from 20371 to 25642 quintal), Becho union is not fully exploiting its potential and needs to improve seriously in this area (with upcoming agriprocessing plans). This is ackowledged by the union. Measures taken are setting up a different output marketing department, seperated from input marketing. Board and management will follow-up progress on a monthly basis and additional experts (2) have been hired under this department. As of 2015, Becho has established an agricultural extension and investment department (coopertive development of PCs, seed multiplication, irrigation/mechanization) as the union believes that embedding extension services within the union is the future.