{"id":15609,"date":"2022-09-14T19:14:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/minister-calls-for-expansion-of-oromia-summer-wheat-farming-to-other-regional-states"},"modified":"2022-09-14T19:31:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T19:31:16","slug":"minister-calls-for-expansion-of-oromia-summer-wheat-farming-to-other-regional-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/minister-calls-for-expansion-of-oromia-summer-wheat-farming-to-other-regional-states","title":{"rendered":"Minister Calls for Expansion of Oromia Summer Wheat Farming to Other Regional States"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Ethiopia. <\/strong><\/span>The summer wheat farming widely undertaken in the Oromia Regional State should be expanded to other regions in order to ensure food self-sufficiency of the country, Agriculture Minister Umer Hussein said.<\/p>\n

In the production year 2021\/22, Oromia was able to harvest over 21 million quintals of wheat through irrigation and belg rains by cultivating more than 669,000 hectares.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Oromia Summer Wheat Production Movement for the Fiscal Year 2022\/23 launched today, Agriculture Minister Umer Hussein said the irrigation based wheat production indicates the possibility of realizing food security and import substitution.<\/p>\n

He stated that what has been achieved in Oromia region is exemplary to other regions and would help to exploit the country\u2019s potential in wheat production to alleviate poverty.<\/p>\n

Researchers and agricultural experts have a great responsibility to further intensify these activities, the minster stressed.<\/p>\n

Boosting wheat production is a strategy of the government as the cereal crop has several food uses which can be prepared in modern or culturally processed techniques.<\/p>\n

In this regard, the government launched an initiative to develop irrigation-based wheat in lowland areas of Afar, Somali, Oromia, and Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples regions to change the existing dependence of the country on rain-fed production of cereals.<\/p>\n

Since then, extensive summer wheat farming activities have been undertaken across the nation with a view to substituting imported wheat and ensuring food self-sufficiency.<\/p>\n

Oromia Regional State Chief Administrator, Shimelis Abdissa said on the occasion that the region\u2019s number one focus for this budget year is to produce wheat surplus on a large-scale and export.<\/p>\n

The regional government has set a plan to cultivate one million hectares of land under the summer wheat movement to harvest over 38 million quntals of wheat, it was learned.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will make Ethiopia not only self-sufficient in wheat production, but also creates opportunity to export the crop to the world market,\u201dhe added.<\/p>\n

The chief administrator stressed that the leadership and professionals at all levels in the region should work with determination to achieve the target plan to improve the livelihood of farmers.<\/p>\n

Therefore, supply and repair of pump, select seeds, and mobilization of the community should be done carefully, Shimelis pointed out.<\/p>\n

As part of its overall commitment to boost agricultural output and ensure food security, the Government of Ethiopia has embarked on its goal to achieve wheat self-sufficiency within a short period by expanding production in the irrigable lowland areas and increasing productivity in the rain-fed agro-ecologies of the country.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia has a potential to cultivate additional 3.5 million hectares of irrigable land in the Awash, Shebele and Omo basins alone; and irrigation-based wheat cultivation piloted in the lowland areas of the country is now being replicated and expanded to the highland areas.<\/p>\n

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