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The Ethiopian Meat and Dairy Industry Development Institute could not realize its plan to earn 36 million USD in the first quarter of the budget year due to drought, instability, illegal trade and strong competition.
The Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC) announced that five industrial parks, which have already gone operational, have created nearly 40,000 jobs in the country in an assessment it has made until the first week of October this year.
Ethiopia will begin running Africa’s first waste-to-energy plant in early 2018 according to the United Nations environment programme website. The facility in question, the Reppie project, is built on the Koshe landfill site located on the outskirts of the capital Addis Ababa.
Earlier in October Ethiopia issued a tender for 400,000 tonnes of milling wheat for use in humanitarian assistance programs throughout the country. Bids on that tender were due Oct. 24, with delivery expected by February 2018.
The industrial parks specialized in textile, apparel, and agro-processing will increase the number of parks with similar sector to five next to Hawassa, Mekelle and Kombolcha.
The industrial parks in Adama and Dire Dawa will be inaugurated after two weeks, while parks in Kilinito and Bole Lemi-II will be inaugurated in February 2018, EIC’s Deputy Commissioner, Belachew Mekuria told ENA.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources of Ethiopia (MoA) unveiled a 10-year National Horticulture Production and Marketing Strategy on October 3, 2017.
Ethiopia is endowed with man made and natural tourist attractive sites though it has not yet benefited from the sector due to various reasons.
A Turkish textiles manufacturing giant-Ayka Addis Textile and Investment Group — says social support has always been one of its priorities since it began operating in Ethiopia 11 years ago.