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Feed the Future
Ethiopia Commercial Farm Services Project is set to provide funding for
20 entrepreneurs and farmers' cooperative unions to open new farm
service centers in Ethiopia's four major regions.
Each recipient is to
receive over one million Birr, to establish a farm service center in
their area. Feed the Future is a U.S. supported global initiative to
improve agricultural development and food security in 19 countries in
need including Ethiopia.
Seven of the
recipients are from Oromia Regional State, six from Amhara Regional
State, four from South Nation Nationalities People and three from Tigray
Regional State.
With a U.S.
assistance center opened in Oromia region, it will bring the total
number of farm centers to 26. Farm centers are one-stop shops which
provide small holder farmers with advice, training and purchase seeds
with a reasonably price.
This program has
been implemented by the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency
since 2015. It works in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture
and Natural Resources with technical support from Cultivating New
Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA).
The Feed the Future
Ethiopia Commercial Farm Services Project follows USAID's successful
Commercial Farm Services Program, implemented by CNFA from 2012 to 2014.
During the same
time span, they have established six locally-owned private retail and
farm services in Oromia. These centers serve more than 30,000 farmers
and create more than 50 jobs.
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