Blate river area agricultural productivity is embodiment of collaboration beyond lines of divisions: PM Abiy

Addis Ababa, December 23, 2022 (FBC) – The FDRE Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has commended the agricultural productivity of the Blate River and its surrounding areas as an embodiment of collaboration beyond lines of divisions that need to be emulated nationally.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, First Lady Zinash Tayachew, and other senior government officials have visited the productivity potential of various fruit and vegetable varieties being developed by private sector investors.

“In what was once an idle Blate river catchment, we returned to review the productivity potential of various fruit and vegetable varieties being developed by courageous private sector investors, utilizing surface level water”, PM Abiy said on a social media post.

He added that the productivity of this area is an embodiment of collaboration beyond lines of divisions that need to be emulated nationally.