EDITOR’S NOTE: The following report is by Woyanne regime mouthpiece Walta Info Center (WIC). It talks about meat export while people in the country eat food in shifts and children are quitting school because they are too weak to learn. Ethiopia is currently being governed by some of the dumbest people on earth. Professor Kanazawa of London School of Economics must have based his study on officials of the Woyanne regime when he stated in his paper that Ethiopia is a country with the lowest IQ in the world. Only the dumbest of the dumb would export food when his own people starve.
Efforts underway to raise annual meat export to 30,000 tons
Addis Ababa, September 18 (WIC) – The Ethiopian Meat and Dairy Technology Institute said it has been undertaking capacity building activities that help achieve the plan set by the government to raise the annual meat export of the country to 30,000 tons from 6,000.
Institute Director General, Dr Ameha Sebsibe, made the remark at a training program on Ethiopian beef fabrication organized here by the Ethiopian Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards and Livestock and Meat Marketing Program (SPS-LMM), in collaboration with The Ethiopian Meat and Dairy Technology Institute.
Dr Ameha said a capacity building is necessary to raise Ethiopian beef fabrication up to the international standard in order to attain the government meat export target.
Ethiopia is exporting about 6,000 tons of meat at present and most of the meat being exported comes from goat and sheep, Dr Ameha said, adding that the meat being exported from livestock does not satisfy the international standard.
Accordingly, the Institute has been providing support to investors engaged in the sector to boost meat export through raising productivity and beef fabrication standards, he said, adding that the Institute has been providing training that focuses on beef fabrication to experts drawn from 10 abattoirs.
The training is being given by a professor who has come from Texas A&M University, USA, and it will help bring the Ethiopian beef fabrication up to the international standard, thereby attracting new clients and raising foreign exchange earnings, according to Dr Ameha.
Ethiopian Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards and Livestock and Meat Marketing Program (SPS-LMM) Deputy Chief of Party, Belachew Hurisa, on his part said that SPS-LMM has been exerting efforts to create a conducive situation to make Ethiopian animal and animal products competent in the international market.
Accordingly, SPS-LMM has been engaged in activities to enable the beef fabrication of export abattoirs meet the demand of the market.
Training of trainers is therefore being given for 21 experts drawn from 10 abattoirs. The training is aimed at enhancing the standard and amount of the nation’s meat export, he noted.