Addis Ababa, April 24,2015 (WIC) – Nation has registered 31.4 percents growth of cereal production in the last GTP period, Ministry of Agriculture said.
Acting Head of Public Relation with the ministry, Asrat Gebre Tsadiq told WIC that the nation registers 31.5 percents growth of crop production in the last four GTP periods scoring 7.8 percents annual growth rate in four consecutive years.
According to Asrat the ministry planned to use 11.96 million hectares of land to produce main crops including pulses and oil seeds in the last budget year, over 12 .4 million hectares of land is utilized in the budget year.
Asrat reminded that over 250 million quintals of crop production is collected in the last production year planning to obtain 245.2 million quintals.
The ministry of agriculture underway activities to harvest production of main crops from 12.17 million hectares of land in this production year.