ADDIS ABABA -The Ministry of Agriculture stated that it has been engaged on growing oilseeds manufacturing to allow the nation minimize importing edible oil via supplying native factories with required inputs.
Agriculture State Minister Melese Mekonnen (PhD) informed The Ethiopian Herald that Ethiopia has been specializing in growing oilseed manufacturing to substitute edible oil domestically.
The sector is among the authorities’s precedence areas within the ten years’ flagship applications within the agriculture sector, he indicated.
The target is to supply inputs for native oil factories thereby reducing edible oil imports, Melese expressed.
In response to the State Minister, factories that produce cooking oil have been expanded within the nation. Due to this fact, he stated, the federal government has been working specializing in producing grass pea, sunflower and groundnut to produce these factories with essential inputs.
At present, the nation is producing grass pea extensively although farmers are going through challenges associated to market linkage, he talked about.
He additionally pledged that his ministry would work along with involved our bodies just like the ministries of Commerce, Trade and others to handle market challenges.
He additional stated that the federal government recognized ten areas that will be given a particular focus within the ten 12 months nationwide flagship program within the agriculture sector.
The nation has managed to cowl some a million hectares of land with rice this Ethiopian fiscal 12 months which reveals that areas that weren’t harvesting rice are actually cultivating the crop, in accordance with Melese.
Just like the wheat initiative, this 12 months Oromia state took nice initiatives subsequent to Amhara in rice manufacturing as a part of the nationwide effort to substituting import, he talked about.
Then again, the nation has been exporting avocado and supplying the product to native processors that export it by including worth, he acknowledged.
BY TSEGAYE TILAHUN
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2023
