{"id":2301,"date":"2021-01-30T17:47:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T17:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2021-01-30T17:41:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T17:41:47","slug":"pm-abiy-commends-irrigation-devt-activities-in-oromia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/pm-abiy-commends-irrigation-devt-activities-in-oromia","title":{"rendered":"PM Abiy Commends Irrigation dev\u2019t Activities in Oromia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>n style=&#8221;color: #ff6600;&#8221;&gt;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\">Ethiopia<\/a>. <\/strong>Addis Ababa January 30\/2021( ENA) Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has commended the irrigation development activities being undertaken in Oromia region.<\/p>\n<p>The premier today visited wheat irrigation development schemes being carried out in the outskirt of Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreat work undertaken so far in Oromia region to grow 130,000 hectares of summer wheat through irrigation,\u201d PM abiy wrote on face-book.<\/p>\n<p>This current progress of a total 300,000 hectares planned, greatly demonstrates \u201cour import substitution aspirations and capacity\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry of Agriculture announced recently that the wheat, which is being cultivated through irrigation this Ethiopian year, will reduce the import of wheat by more than half.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia has been importing 17 million quintals of wheat in a year.<\/p>\n<p>The harvest expected from 300,000 hectares of land this year would help produce 10 million quintals, it was learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n style=&#8221;color: #ff6600;&#8221;&gt;Africa-Press &#8211; Ethiopia. Addis Ababa January 30\/2021( ENA) Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has commended the irrigation development activities being undertaken in Oromia region. The premier today visited wheat irrigation development schemes being carried out in the outskirt of Addis Ababa. \u201cGreat work undertaken so far in Oromia region to grow 130,000 hectares of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[233,277,235],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ethiopia-2","tag-ethiopia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PM Abiy Commends Irrigation dev\u2019t Activities in Oromia - Ethiopia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Addis Ababa January 30\/2021( ENA) Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has commended the irrigation development activities being un ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/pm-abiy-commends-irrigation-devt-activities-in-oromia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PM Abiy Commends Irrigation dev\u2019t Activities in Oromia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Addis Ababa January 30\/2021( ENA) Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has commended the irrigation development activities being un ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/pm-abiy-commends-irrigation-devt-activities-in-oromia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ethiopia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-30T17:47:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/sites\/50\/2021\/01\/img-60159a241a2d8.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/pm-abiy-commends-irrigation-devt-activities-in-oromia#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/pm-abiy-commends-irrigation-devt-activities-in-oromia\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PM Abiy Commends Irrigation dev\u2019t Activities in Oromia\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-30T17:47:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/pm-abiy-commends-irrigation-devt-activities-in-oromia\"},\"wordCount\":147,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/pm-abiy-commends-irrigation-devt-activities-in-oromia#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/sites\/50\/2021\/01\/img-60159a241a2d8.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Ethiopia\",\"ethiopia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/pm-abiy-commends-irrigation-devt-activities-in-oromia#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/pm-abiy-commends-irrigation-devt-activities-in-oromia\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/pm-abiy-commends-irrigation-devt-activities-in-oromia\",\"name\":\"PM Abiy Commends Irrigation dev\u2019t Activities in Oromia - 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