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Finding
the appropriate location:
When starting on the investment process, you are asked to name the location
of your interest on the application forms. It is advisable to first look
around everywhere in the country, and link the conditions needed for the
products you expect to produce with the climatic conditions and natural
resources in the prospective areas. Annex 1 shows an altitude map within
a 300 km radius of Addis Ababa. Good maps of the country are available
at the Ethiopian Mapping Authority (EMA). For meteorological information,
the Bole Meteorological Station can provide information at about 200 Birr
per location.
Utilities are available in
and around the towns, in contrast to remote villages where infrastructure
connections are mostly deficient.
• The main roads, which lead to Addis Ababa and to the Bole Airport,
are paved and wellmaintained.
Away from the main roads, gravel roads are common; they vary from all
weather to seasonal (dry weather only) roads.
• For water supply you may have to depend on a river if there is
one, or on your own borehole.
• Access to electricity is not widespread in the Ethiopian countryside.
However, electric power is available in the larger villages, from where connections can
be provided.
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