EDITOR’S NOTE: These flower farms are fertilizer and water intensive, according to experts. Is it a wise policy to grow flower, instead of teff, corn and other edible crops, when millions of our people are facing death by starvation? Would a government that cares for its people do such a thing? The following is a propaganda piece by a Woyanne information outlet >>
Addis Ababa (Walta Woyanne Information Center) — Some 700 hectares of land has been granted to over 10 horticultural investors on the outskirts of Bahir Dar town during the past two months, according to Ethiopian Horticultural Producers and Exporters Association (EHPEA).
Association Chairman Tsegaye Abebe told WIC that the local and foreign investors are making preparations to begin exporting produces early next year.
The Ethiopian Airports Enterprise and Ethiopian Airlines have also begun furnishing Bahir Dar International Airport with various equipment that enable to smoothly undertake the export, Tsegaye added.
The efforts underway to extend the floriculture and horticulture industry to other parts of the country would further be implemented in Diredawa and SNNP State, it was revealed.
Apart from earning foreign currency and creating jobs, the sector would help promote the positive image of the country, the chairman noted.
Ethiopia, as compared to other countries with long-years experience, has been registering encouraging results in the sector, he further said,adding that the production volume of the current Ethiopian year has shown 30 to 40 percent increase as compared to the previous years.
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Think deep!!!!
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June 10th, 2008 at 7:46 PM
I think such projects should be encouraged but the displaced farmers should get benefit from these projects
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June 10th, 2008 at 9:27 PM
Any one can explaine, how are the people benifited so far from the foreign currency obtained by exporting flowers or just individuals are benifited
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June 10th, 2008 at 11:39 PM
Flower buisness is at this moment booming but the profit goes to Woyane. Ethiopia has to produce crops which solves the hunger problem. flower farming is not good for the soil. some European countries forbidden (like Spain) to plant flower because in the long term the soil would become useless and water shortage in the long term.
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June 11th, 2008 at 3:20 AM
What a benifit you are talking? No one can benifit from horticulture. This consumes upto 85% of our foreign currency to produce. Think of the return and if found poor in quality,which most of the time experiancing, no money no funny!!Think twice, what damage brings to our fertile land and the health of the poor farmer who became forced labor.
All fertile land which produce teff and cerials are now given to the so called investors, who Kenya export to us.
Why not we think the indigenous coffee plantation which brings more foreign currency rather than spending on horticulture. Horticulture can not be a substitute in any form for coffee,cerials and oil seeds. Horticulture is becoming a virus distributed by Woyane “economists” to kill Ethiopia for good.
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June 11th, 2008 at 3:43 AM
It is better to stop killing if they want to improve their image and accept the will of the people instead of wanting to rule indefinitely by the barrel of a gun instead of ballot box.
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June 11th, 2008 at 12:46 PM