Ethopia: Amhara region cultivates over 4,500 hectares in drive for humanitarian independence amid soaring demands

Addis Abeba – In alignment with the federal government’s initiative, which mandates regional states to independently cover at least 70% of their humanitarian needs, the Amhara Agricultural Bureau has announced the commencement of cultivating over 4,500 hectares of land with grains such as teff, wheat, and maize.

Abeje Seneshaw, the deputy head of the Amhara Agricultural Bureau, recently disclosed to state media that the objective is to cultivate crops for reserve grain storage on 36,000…