In the project, ACDI/VOCA partnered with the Selale Dairy Producers Cooperative Union to make investments in local agricultural production to fill market gaps and improve local food quality and availability.

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Dear all, EAC just delivered the attached letter to President Obama. We greatly appreciate if you can help passing the information to others

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New impulses are given to the Ethiopian layer industry with the start of new chick production farms in different parts of the country. The demand for table eggs is rapidly growing in this vast country with 80 million population.

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On behalf of the State Minister, Dr Berhe G/Egziabher, Director of the Animal and Plant Health Regulatory Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture, opened the meeting. He mentioned that, although Ethiopia is highly dependent on animal production and agriculture, the dairy sector has not been given sufficient attention.

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The Ross Middle East and Africa Association (RMEAA) is celebrating its 10 year anniversary. To mark the occasion, all of the Association’s distributors were taken to the spiritual home of the Ross brand; Edinburgh, Scotland for a weekend of discussions, presentations and social activities.

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An ambitious global effort that has brought rinderpest, a deadly cattle plague, to the brink of extinction is ending all field activities, paving the way for official eradication of the disease. It would be the first time in history that humankind has succeeded in wiping out an animal disease in the wild, and only the second time, after smallpox in 1980, that a disease has been eliminated thanks to human efforts.

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An ambitious global effort that has brought rinderpest, a deadly cattle plague, to the brink of extinction is ending all field activities, paving the way for official eradication of the disease. A technician from Ethiopia's National Veterinary Institute vaccinates cattle against rinderpest (1987).

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Africa has failed to protect its water territory not only along the Somalia Coast but also in west and south. This failure has caused massive exploitation and fish grabbing from Africa by the Western and Asian nations and companies, a pan-African maritime security gathering in the continent has revealed.

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Walter Plowright, a pioneer in the field of veterinary medicine who helped to eradicate so-called "cattle plague," rinderpest, died last month at the age of 86. Rinderpest has been considered one of the world's greatest natural disasters. In the late 1800s, rinderpest spread to Africa through India, killing an estimated 90 percent of domesticated cattle. As a result, one third of the population of Ethiopia, and two thirds of the Maasai, died due to starvation. Outbreaks in Africa continued throughout the 1900s.

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Key regulators from Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana and Egypt including His Excellency Amin Abaza, Egypt's Minister of Agriculture & Land Reclamation, will highlight farmland and agri-investment opportunities in their countries. They will join top investors, experts and advisors in outlining Investment opportunities, risk management & financing solutions for Large Scale Farming Investment in Africa.

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Horn of Africa reporters have been tracing the aggressive entry of foreign investors who have leased from Ethiopian government large tracts of arable land. Reporter Tizita Belachew gives an overview of what some critics have called the “new colonialism.”

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John van der Zanden, soon to change its name in the New Year to VDZ trading BV, recently produced and installed a hallal slaughter house for 2000 sheep and 250 cattle in Barhir Dar, Ethiopia (next to the Lake Tana).

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Poultry play an important economic, nutritional and socio-cultural role in the livelihoods of poor rural households in many developing countries, including Ethiopia, where they are an integrated part of the smallholder production systems and play a significant role in alleviating poverty

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The largest Indian soy food and edible soy oil manufacturing company Ruchi Soya Industries Limited has said today that the company has decided to establish a soy food processing plant In Ethiopia

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This is a country of the bent back and the silver sickle, where virtually all the crops have felt the calloused fingers of the peasant farmer working his tiny parcel of state-owned land

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Ethiopian Agriculture Minister Tefera Deribew said on Thursday that for the region’s agriculture sector to become globally competitive, all stakeholders need to develop and support intervention measures that would see small scale farming transform into a viable commercial agricultural community. “Stand-alone and supply

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An Israeli delegation head said the Israeli government is committed to expand and diversify its cooperation with Ethiopia especially in agriculture technology transfer. In an exclusive interview with ENA over

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Agriculture is the mainstay economy of the country. We have been told that a million times. Though it is the mainstay, the productivity of agriculture in Ethiopia has failed to satisfy the food security need of the population during the last few decades. Accordingly, the government has presently exerted much effort to modernize agriculture to achieve the national goal of attaining food security.

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Agriculture is the mainstay economy of the country. We have been told that a million times. Though it is the mainstay, the productivity of agriculture in Ethiopia has failed to satisfy the food security need of the population during the last few decades. Accordingly, the government has presently exerted much effort to modernize agriculture to achieve the national goal of attaining food security.

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The Ministry of Trade and Industry said that Ethiopia earned $328 million from export during the past three months.

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The Ministry of Trade and Industry said that Ethiopia earned $328 million from export during the past three months. Amakel Yimam, Head

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On November 5th, Alema Koudijs Feed Plc (AKF) opened its new production faility in Debre Zeit

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Africa's farmers need help to access loans, fertilizer and export markets to avoid future food supply crises caused by climate change and commodities speculation, a top agricultural expert said on Tuesday. Wheat, rice and maize prices have fallen sharply from their 2008 highs, when protests broke out across the developing world over unaffordable staple foods and countr

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The Tendaho Sugar Factory Project Office made an advance payment of 16.6 million dollars to Overseas Infrastructure Alliance Private Limited (OIA) to commence the construction of the factory as disclosed by officials at the project office. The Ethiopian government signed an Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) contract with the Indian-based OIA

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Dar es Salaam received an average of 1,155 animals daily last week from 1,080 the previous week.

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The Ministry of Trade and Industry said the country has earned over one billion USD from export trade in the past nine months.

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