I was able to confirm from her family that Azew Orku, who was arrested yesterday, was released a few minutes ago after being detained for half a day.
In the 2016 fiscal year, Ethiopia exported 1,142 tons of tea and earned 2.3 million US dollars, the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority announced.
Sahle Mariam Gebre Medhan, Public Relations and Communications Executive Officer of the authority, told Bisratu Radio and Television that the performance was better compared to the same period of the previous fiscal year.
He said that it is more than 50 thousand tons.
Although it is possible to get better income from the tea production business in the fiscal year, but given Ethiopia’s capacity, it requires a lot of work, he added to our site. Although Ethiopia is a country with favorable weather and soil conditions for tea production, it is said that the lack of investors in the sector has hindered it from getting the foreign currency it needs to earn.
He also said that the work of expanding tea leaf production is currently being done on a large scale. In order to expand the production, 460 million saplings have been propagated and 30 thousand hectares of tea leaf production has been planted in the 2016 fiscal year.
Mr. Sahle Mariam said that the production of tea, which was the most important in Ethiopia, was only on 5 thousand hectares of land, thus the foreign exchange earned from tea leaves was not more than 3 million US dollars per year.
In order to increase the income from the trade of tea production, the tea plantation work which was previously carried out in a scattered manner in the Oromia region has been started at the cluster level since the 2014 fiscal year, the official announced.