| Ethiopia:Ethiopia will play major part in world flower market. March 31, 2008 (Ethiopian News Agancy) Ethiopia will play a key role in the world flower market within two years time if the present growth trend continues strengthened in floriculture investment sector, the Ministry of Trade and Industry said. Read more... |
| Ethiopia:Ethiopian Flower Exports May Rise to $186 Million. March 28, 2008 (Bloomberg.com) Ethiopia may export $186 million in flowers to Europe, Asia, and the Middle East this year, the Ethiopian Producer Exporters Association said. Read more... |
| Kenya:
Horticulture Takes Lead As Foreign Exchange Earner. March 26, 2008 (The East African Standard) Earnings from the horticulture sector, which is the largest exporter of cut flowers to Europe, soared to 63 per cent last year to overtake tourism as the country's leading foreign exchange earner. Read more... |
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Ethiopia: Cut flower Bonanza: At What Cost? February 18, 2008 3:18 P.M Nearly 60 flower farms operate in Ethiopia today. More than half of them are owned and run by foreigners. During his recent statement to the media, Minister Girma Birru pledges nearly 2000 hectares of land to attract new investors to the industry. But with local and international bodies’ concerns for environmental mismanagement and labor abuses, their time may be running out. Read more... |
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shoots of recovery February 11, 2008 1:30 P.M Ethiopia is bucking gloomy global business trends, with a little help from an unlikely economic friend - floriculture. Read more... |
| Addis Ababa, February 05, 2008 (Capitalethiopia.com) - Ethiopia: Second largest flower farm budding.
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| Nairobi, January 26, 2008 (The East African Standard) - Tonnes of flowers worth millions of shillings destined for export are lying at the Eldoret Airport for lack of cargo flights to airlift them to the international markets.
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| Addis Ababa, January 18, 2008 (WIC) - EHPEA exploring ways of increasing flower export to Russia
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| ADDIS ABABA , 24 Dec 2007 (Addis Fortune) - Minister of Trade and Industry (MoTI) Girma Birru
last week concluded a three-day visit to export farms in the Oromia Regional State, where he was told by horticulturalists – who grow flowers and
berries – that the industry needs more land to expand.
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HOLETA, Ethiopia (AFP) - The smell of flowers is displacing the aroma of coffee as a driving force in the Ethiopian economy. Booming floriculture is set to upstage decades-old coffee production as the top foreign exchange earner, with projected revenue looking rosy. Read more... |
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Fortune Dec. 16, 2007) - Tigray State to Get 200m Br Vineyard. Ten prominent businesspeople engaged in flower farms are planning to venture in developing a vineyard and establish wineries, forming a new company two weeks ago, Ethio Grapes SC, with a capital of one million Birr. Read more... |
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BREDA, The Netherlands (freshplaza Nov. 23, 2007) - New line of premium strawberries available for the first time from Ethiopia. Monday 26th November 2007 will see the introduction of a new line of premium strawberries – the very first to come out of Ethiopia. Fruit World Breda (Netherlands) has selected Ethiopia’s only strawberry grower Ilan Tot plc to supply them with premium fruit for their European Black Label line. Read more... |
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DEBRE ZEIT, Ethiopia (17 May 2007 PlusNews) - Ethiopia's flower industry is a booming business, but AIDS campaigners fear that inaction by farm owners and government, combined with a poorly educated workforce, could provide fertile ground for HIV. "I've been working here for six months and in that time I've never heard mention of HIV/AIDS," Sofanit Nigusu, 21, told IRIN/PlusNews as she carefully pruned rose cuttings in one of a huge number of commercial greenhouses at the heart of the country's flower industry. "I know it's a problem, but outside [the capital] Addis Ababa nothing is done about it." Read more... |