• Regional states launching Yelemat Tirufat
Ethiopia is fighting to achieve prosperity. Amid internal and external challenges Ethiopian economy is growing. Ethiopian economy has become East African top economy.It takes third place in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the concluded budget year, Ethiopia’s economy grew at 6.4 percent and it is projected to grow at 7.5 percent this budget year.
Ethiopia is on the right track to start export of wheat. It is working to fulfill its rice demand from local production. As Ethiopia’s goal is complete prosperity, its economic development aims at benefiting all citizens. To benefit every household from the economic growth, Ethiopia has launched ‘Yelemat Tirufat’ campaign so as to accelerate the efforts of achieving food self-sufficiency and nutrition at the family and national levels. ‘‘Yelemat Tirufat’ ‘ is a development campaign focusing on nutritional opulence and if citizens deploy an all-out effort for the achievement of this four year program, food security will never become an agenda in Ethiopia.
Yelemat Tirufat was launched with research and detailed plan to maximize the income of every household by giving due attention to poultry, honey, dairy, fishery, fruit and vegetable farming. This would help our people to maximize their income and to fulfill their own food security.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) at the parliament
The Government of Ethiopia launched Yelemeta Tirufat to accelerate the efforts of Ethiopia in fulfilling food self-sufficiency at national and household levels. This campaign will help citizens to properly exploit the resources they have to improve the income and livelihoods of citizens.
Sidama Regional State is rich in natural resources and also suitable for honey production, poultry farming, dairy farming, avocado and coffee production. Investing on these sectors and supporting every household to maximize their gain from these sectors is Yelemat Tirufat campaign’s goal. The Regional administration is working to achieve comprehensive family prosperity and committed for the successfulness of Yelemat Tirufat program. We have to work jointly for the achievement of the initiative that would help our people to fulfill their food security.
Desta Ledamo- President of Sidama Regional State
Afar is rich in natural resources. By exploiting the resource we have, it is critical to fulfill our food security at every household and ‘Yelemat Tirufat’ campaign will help us to properly exploit our resources we have for the need of our people. The region has a huge potential in dairy farming, poultry farming, wheat production and fishery. Yelemat Tiruft’s target is investing in these sectors to help households to fulfill their food self-sufficiency.
By properly developing the poultry and fishery farming, there is a huge potential to produce beyond food security. There is untapped potential to produce for export purpose and the target of Yelemta Tirufat is to accelerate the efforts of food self-sufficiency at household and national level so as to achieve the country’s prosperity. We all should work hand-in-hand to realize the goal by facilitating the started development programs so as to help our people to increase their income.
Awel Arba- President of Afar Regional State
The Ethiopian Herald November 19/2022
