The rural agriculture centered development strategy of Ethiopian government
Posted: 14 Mar 2021, 05:38
Focus your effort to where you can make the most impact, as a simple logic dictates.
Ethiopia is a country where the vast majority's livelihood is based on agriculture, around 80% or more of the total population leads its lifes in this sector.
Ethiopia was making a big stride on the development front in the last few years, recording a 2 digit annual growth in most of the cases. Most of the reported growth was based in the few cities the country has got and the surpluses were for the residents of the urban areas.
While the country was recording a 2 digit economic growth the vast majority of the people was left out and made to lead a destitute live. This also backfired finally and the growth itself started to dwindle and new waves of violences started to surface in many parts of the country, mostly fueled by unequal distribution of the wealth the same growth created for the two section of the populace (the privileged minority, which enjoyed the fruition of the growth and mostly based in the urban areas and the marginalized majority of the rural areas, which was left out).
It seems that this flaw in the development strategy made itself felt while many were overwhelmed by their "achievements" in recording the said growth rates.
The next logical consequence left to the policy makers was to first and foremost change the flawed strategy and it already seems to pay back now.
Ethiopia now says it is poised to save around $ 1 billion in annual expenses to import wheat with the change of the strategy and produce the wheat in the country and even turn it into exporting the surpluses and earn the much needed foreign exchange and cover the expenses for other sectors' requirements of the country.
Ethiopia is a country where the vast majority's livelihood is based on agriculture, around 80% or more of the total population leads its lifes in this sector.
Ethiopia was making a big stride on the development front in the last few years, recording a 2 digit annual growth in most of the cases. Most of the reported growth was based in the few cities the country has got and the surpluses were for the residents of the urban areas.
While the country was recording a 2 digit economic growth the vast majority of the people was left out and made to lead a destitute live. This also backfired finally and the growth itself started to dwindle and new waves of violences started to surface in many parts of the country, mostly fueled by unequal distribution of the wealth the same growth created for the two section of the populace (the privileged minority, which enjoyed the fruition of the growth and mostly based in the urban areas and the marginalized majority of the rural areas, which was left out).
It seems that this flaw in the development strategy made itself felt while many were overwhelmed by their "achievements" in recording the said growth rates.
The next logical consequence left to the policy makers was to first and foremost change the flawed strategy and it already seems to pay back now.
Ethiopia now says it is poised to save around $ 1 billion in annual expenses to import wheat with the change of the strategy and produce the wheat in the country and even turn it into exporting the surpluses and earn the much needed foreign exchange and cover the expenses for other sectors' requirements of the country.