Ethiopia joins CABI as 50th member state
Ethiopia becomes 50th member country of CABI, the international not-for-profit organization that improves people’s lives by providing information…
Agribusiness
ILRI introduces French chicken with Ethiopian farmers
BY ANDUALEM SISAY GESSESSE – The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has introduced to Ethiopian farmers a more…
Ethiopia inaugurates 2 million bread per day baking factory
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia this morning inaugurated Sheger Bread Factory, the largest bakery and flour factory…
Ethiopia gets $68 million from meat, milk export
Over the last eleven months Ethiopia has secured 68.13 million from export of meat and milk, the Ministry…
Ethiopia produces wheat on 20,000 hectares irrigated lowland
Using irrigation, the Government of Ethiopia has covered 20,000 hectares of lowland with wheat farm for the first…
Performance of Ethiopia’s livestock, meat, leather industry
BY ANDUALEM SISAY GESSESSE – Ethiopia is known as the top African country for having huge amount of…
Opportunities to boost sesame production in Ethiopia
By Elias G/Selasssie – Sesame is one of the major commercial grain crops agricultural products of Ethiopia. It…
Urban agriculture in Addis Ababa to ease COVID-19 impact
By Mekonnen Teshome & Tesfaye Abate – Apart from battling with Corona Virus (COVID-19) health emergency, countries around…
Study advises to limit farmers’ movement in Ethiopia
To stop the spread of COVID-19 to the farming community, a new study advised the Government of Ethiopia…
Ethio Lease set to distribute tractors to Ethiopian farmers
Ethio Lease, the first foreign-owned leasing company, received the first shipment of 44 tractors, which will be distributed…
Ethiopian Architects Association partners with Land Bank
The Association of Ethiopian Architects (AEA) and Land Bank and Development Corporation (LBDC) of Ethiopia signed a collaborative…
Desert locust to hit Ethiopia again
The desert locust, which has been damaging crops in some east African countries, is now moving from Somali…
Ethiopian farmers to get mechanization service centers
The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) has signed subgrant agreements with eight cooperative unions and two entrepreneurs for…
U.S. provides $10 million to fight locust in East Africa
The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an additional $10 million in…
Ethio Lease to help Ethiopia improve agriculture productivity
Ethio Lease, the first foreign-owned leasing company in Ethiopia, is set to help Ethiopia improve its agricultural productivity…
Ethiopia to host agriculture ministers’ forum on locust outbreak
Agriculture ministers of from locus outbreak affected eastern African countries Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are set to meet…
Ethiopia deploys four planes to fight locust
The Ministry of Agriculture of Ethiopia says it has deployed four pesticides spraying planes in four directions to…
USAID, Awash Bank to help small agribusinesses in Ethiopia
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Awash Bank announced a new partnership that provides $6.4 million…
Africa can’t end huger denying women land rights, AU says
BY ANDUALEM SISAY GESSESSE – Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire – Without ensuring land rights for women, Africa cannot end…
Ethiopia Airlines initiative to develop local farmers’ capacity
Ethiopia Airlines launched an innovative capacity development initiative aimed at creating local value in agricultural products.
Start-up program set to support agriculture in Ethiopia
OCP Africa and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), to start impulse start-up acceleration program to build linkages between…
Microsoft to assist Ethiopian farmers improve agriculture
The software technology giant, Microsoft, and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) are set to…
Hansa Flower engages in social responsibility activities in Ethiopia
Hansa Flowers, the second biggest flower producer and exporter company in Ethiopia says it has been engaged in…
Danish minister visits project in Ethiopia
The Minister for Development Cooperation of Denmark, Mr Rasmus Prehn, visited development projects in Wukro Town of Tigray…
New coffee roasting company goes operational in Ethiopia
Melange, a new coffee roasting and packing company, officially inaugurates its coffee processing plant in the capital Addis…
Local factory to halve Ethiopia’s edible oil import
Built in Amhara region, a new edible oil factory from sunflower and soya bean is set to halve…
Ethiopia set to improve honey quality
With the aim of improving honey quality, the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) is set to help establishment…
New project to promote sustainable cotton value chain in Ethiopia
Solidaridad, Cotton made in Africa, Danish Ethical Trading Initiative and MVO Nederland start a new project to promote…
Corteva Agriscience to help Ethiopia boost cereals, fruit productivity
Corteva Agriscience, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, signed a partnership with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa…
Ethiopia purchases 1.3 million metric tons fertilizer
In preparation for the upcoming Meher agriculture season (from June to August), the government of Ethiopia has purchased…