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Ethiopia: New Abattoir’s Construction to Commence in 4 Months

The Addis Ababa Abattoirs Enterprise is going to commence construction for a new abattoir, Capital reported. The new abattoir is going to be situated at Hanna Mariam and the construction is expected to start after the last and fourth round of study has been completed. The study is expected to be finished within three to four months.

According to Efrem Desalegne, Managing Director of the Enterprise, the study has already costed 20 Million Birr. And the last phase of the study is expected to reveal the cost and duration of the construction. The study is being carried out by a meeting consortium group from South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.

According to Efrem, the new slaughter house will replace the old one and upon completion the latter will be used for other purposes.

The new abattoir is going to be on 17,400 square meters and it is going to have the capacity to handle 14,000 animals per day. Compared to this, the old slaughter house has the capacity of only slaughtering 1,200 animals per day.

The old abattoir has seen some improvements in the past years. Nonetheless, expansion and improvement projects faced difficulties due to space limitation. With the new slaughter house, the Enterprise expects to render different new services such as export slaughtering service and environmental mitigation actions.

The export service is expected to be given through an automatic line which can handle bulls, sheep and goats.

An upgrading system for processing by products to produce animal tallow, meat bone meal, glue and pure bone meal will also be installed in the new abattoir. In addition to these the new abattoir will feature a biogas plant and water treatment plant to enable the treatment of water and reuse of water.

Source: Capital