Agribusiness – New Business Ethiopia

Ethiopia to triple coffee production

February 15, 2019February 15, 2019 newbusinessethiopia

Ethiopia, the largest coffee producers is set to triple its coffee production in the coming five years by improving its production and marketing system.

Pope Frances urges global institutions to make hunger history

February 15, 2019February 15, 2019 newbusinessethiopia

Hunger can be made a part of the world’s past, but only if all institutions and people work together, said Pope Frances, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State.

Israeli company to export processed sesame from Ethiopia

February 13, 2019February 13, 2019 newbusinessethiopia

KROTAJ, a joint venture company formed between an Israeli company named Genuine and Ethiopian Sesame Export, has opened a new sesame processing factory in Ethiopia.

Ethiopia to brand its agricultural commodities globally

February 8, 2019February 8, 2019 newbusinessethiopia

With the aim of promoting Ethiopian agricultural commodities globally, Tourism Ethiopia and Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATC) launch “Ethiopia: Taste of Origins” brand.

Ethiopian PM inaugurates irrigation dam

February 3, 2019February 4, 2019 newbusinessethiopia

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia today inaugurated Gidabo irrigation dam that can irrigate over 13,400 hectares of land in Oromia and Southern regions of the country.

Ethiopian farmers’ malt factory to triple production

January 24, 2019January 24, 2019 newbusinessethiopia

Assela Malt Factory, the state company recently sold to Ethiopian farmers, is set to triple its malt production to one million quintals per year.

Nominations for $100,000 Africa Food Prize opens

January 22, 2019January 22, 2019 newbusinessethiopia

Nominations for the $100,000 Africa Food Prize, an award that recognizes individuals and institutions working to make farming a profitable business in the continent, is opened.

Combating the fall armyworm in Africa

December 21, 2018December 21, 2018 newbusinessethiopia

The European Commission Directorate for International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO), has committed to strengthen the efforts of the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), in the management of the fall armyworm in Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.