Bee Farming An Annual Mission In Kenya
Over 30 metric tonnes of Kitui honey is procured by middlemen annually in a mission to fleece bee farmers, says Eutchus Katungi, Chairman of Kamaki Beekeepers Cooperative Society in Kitui South. Katungi admits that unscrupulous middlemen have infiltrated the multi-million Kitui County honey industry and are profiteering from it at the expense of bee farmers due to lack of proper market linkages.
Ethiopia's economy thriving under investments in irrigation.
Ethiopia has emerged as an engine of development in Africa after rapid economic growth averaging 10 percent annually between 2004 and 2014 and there are no signs that further growth ambitions are disappearing.
Ethiopia launches Electronic Trading System for Soybean and Chickpea
Addis Ababa — Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) has officially launched the electronic trading system of soya bean and chickpea to strengthen foreign trade transactions.
The modern trading system was launched officially in the presence of Trade and Industry State Minister, Misganaw Arega and Ambassador Fitsum Arega.
Oromia to have a new agricultural processing industrial park:
Leaders of the Three Horn of Africa nations which included Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, and Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh inaugurated a new industrial park dominated by agricultural processing firms in the Oromia region in southwest Ethiopia.
The industrial park, spanning 51 hectares in the town of Jimma in the Oromia regional state, represents an investment of $61 million.
