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Central Statistics Agency disclosed Ethiopia’s year-on-year inflation has increased to 8.7 percent in May from 8.6 percent, where it stood in the previous month.

Installation work of a factory that manufactures concrete sleepers has begun in Ethiopia. The factory will produce sleepers for the 216 kilometers Meqele – Woldiya railway project and it will have the capacity to manufacture 1,000 sleepers a day. 

Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) disclosed it extended 82 agricultural technologies and recommendations to users in Ethiopia during the first 6 months of the current fiscal year.

The Ethiopian Agricultural Research Institute introduced new hybrid highland maize varieties to the farmers in Hosaena, Hadiya Zone.

Kassa Yihun, Researcher and Coordinator of the Highland Maize Project at Ambo Plant Protection Research Center, said the latest highland maize varieties are different from the previous maize varieties the farmers used.

The Meat and Dairy Industry Development Institute is drafting a proclamation to prohibit live goat and sheep exports with a view to encouraging exports of processed meat and ensuring quality. The proclamation is expected to be enacted by the end of this fiscal year.