 Over 400 large-scale investors cultivate an average 600 hectares of sesame, while local farmers cultivate up to 12 hectares each.Investors cultivate 58% of the 186,000 hectares of cultivable land, and local farmers the remaining 42%.Sesame production is labor-intensive, especially during the weeding and harvesting period, attracting an average of 200,000 workers from the rest of the Tigray Region, northern Amhara, and Sudan each year.