Opening in Bohicon, a town located about a hundred kilometers from Cotonou, of the second capacity building session for the staff of seed companies on the production and marketing of quality vegetable seeds.

There are about thirty representatives of seed companies from all over Benin to participate in this second cycle of capacity building focused on creating and selecting varieties, Marketing, packaging and marketing of seeds, legislation national and sub-regional plans, financial management, etc.

After the opening ceremony, by the Coordinator of the SafeVeg project, who acted in place of the Regional Director of the World Vegetable Center (WCA) unable to attend; the participants split into three working groups to facilitate the initial evaluation and the participants’ expectations. Then, the overall plan for capacity building and the objectives of this second training session were presented.

The afternoon was devoted to reminders on modules 1, 2, and 3, provided almost 12 months ago, and to the progress of module 5 on the Marketing of vegetable seeds.

This training session, which complemented the first and took place under the same conditions in Burkina Faso and Mali, is an initiative of the World Vegetable Center through its SafeVeg, BMZ-CGT, and FRESH projects.

It is essential to point out that this capacity-building workshop is organized thanks to the support

The European Union and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which

finances the SafeVeg project, and the German Cooperation, the financial arm of the BMZ-CGT project.

The professionalization of the various actors of the seed sub-sector of Benin and the sub-region is the targeted goal.