Ethiopia's Agriculture Minister Adisu Arega stated that the agricultural sector is playing a key role in efforts to build a job-creating non-subsistence economy. He visited wheat production sites in Oromia region's East Shewa zone, Adaa woreda. The agricultural transformation is registering encouraging results.
In Addis Ababa on Megabit 25, 2018 EC, Agriculture Minister Adisu Arega said the agricultural transformation is yielding encouraging results from its early stages. Its core pillars involve the proper use of irrigation land, seeds, and water resources to shift the sector from subsistence to commercial farming.
He stressed the need to sustain intensification of registered crops. All stakeholders should unite in their efforts, he urged. The second pillar focuses on mechanization, with the government allowing over 555 types of machinery to enter regions tax-free.
Nationally, 27,000 tractors, 12,000 combines, and 500,000 water pumps have entered service, he noted. Through these measures, the sector is poised to produce surplus products from farm to market for export. Ethiopia's food security leadership for the world is not far off, he added.