PM Abiy urges stakeholders to commit themselves to nation’s aspirations for wheat self-sufficiency, export

Addis Ababa, October 9, 2022 (FBC) – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has urged government officials and all stakeholders to commit themselves to nation’s aspirations for wheat self-sufficiency and export.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed along with high level government officials has visited summer wheat production activity Tulu Guled Woreda, Somali Regional State.

The narratives of the nation can be changed only with hard work of her sons and daughters, he said, describing results gained in the wheat production sector as an epitome of nation’s bright future.

Chief Administrator of the Somali Regional State, Mustafa Omer, for his part said that the region looks forward to contribute 2 million quintals of wheat for the export rollout.

Ethiopia is working to develop 1.3 million hectare of land with summer wheat farming in two rounds thereby harvest 25 million quintals of product.