02-02-2015 15:46 via news.yahoo.com

Farming changes may hold key to Ethiopia's industrial goals, says expert

By Edmund Blair ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia’s ambition to become a manufacturing hub may hinge on Khalid Bomba's ability to transform small-scale farming just as much as it relies on new railways, roads and other more obvious signs of change in a nation once brought to its knees by famine. The 46-year-old one-time investment banker is now chief executive of Ethiopia's Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA). "The cheap labour for industrial manufacturing is going to come f
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