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This is great for the economy and for creating more job opportunities. So, those of you who are eager to write something negative, please, stop it now and be proud of your nation. I am pleased whenever I see such GREAT NEWS that is positive about Ethiopia...

thanks for sharing this great news with us...

the only once who write negativism about the mother land are ERITREANS!

500,000 acres is a lot of land for tea. Nevertheless this will help the country.

500,000 hectares? Where are the small scale farmers that used to farm and raise families out of their produce? Now only couple of rich tycoons will benefit at the expense of poor Ethiopians who will soon die of hunger. If at all they get paid to work on their own land it will not be enough to feed their families.

The land grap in Ethiopia by the government that is hiding behind development veil should be stopped. It is giving foreign companies to manage and use our land for their own greed.
How many of them are doing oil exploration? more than 10 companies. For sure each and every one of them was given more than 100,000 hectares of land. Is the government buying the land from these innocent Ethiopians? For sure nooo.

Z-mike,
Don't think Ethiopians are as stupid as you are. You are certainly a boot licker and an ignorant moron who bluffs everywhere with no bit of knowledge or morality.
Please shut up. we are getting sick of your blind comments. I am sure you don't mind if the whole Ethiopia is sold to foreigners.

Smart

ethiopia is getting their. this is geat for the economy

Another GOOD news about Emama Ethiopia. Definitely this will help our brothers and sisters. Go Ethiopia!!!!!

those indians are the cheapest on the planet,even worse than the chinese.Although incoming foregin investments is good for the country,government should try and make sure those poor farmers are paid well!!

This is not only great news but also smart move too.Thanks to the current administration for the right policy of every citizen. Yeha

The CUD/Kinijit mainly disgruntled Amharas and Sheabias are the one writing negative comments. Because they don't want to see Ethiopia progress. Under the Amhara leadership, Ethiopia was the famine and poverty capital of the world. It's only the first time in the country history that the gov't is doing something for the people. Ethiopia will be even much greater when the majority rules...

Please send some coffee and tea to Isayas he will be happy. Although he doesn't like to eat teff Injera, see if he likes these.

PEACE

As usual Tigray is at the receiving end not produing.Consumption at the expense of other Ethiopian wealth and labour.

I heard Eritreans protest not to eat spaggeti cause they were eating it for almost 17 years and need to change food menu. They tried to plant teff but doesn't meet supply and demand theory for most Shabias prefere teff than spagetti.They are so proud of their freedom which bring change of line-up for piece of bread next to Zembabwe.

Assab assab is eritrea that is why you are negative,rigray is ethiopia duh domnass.

Well, no one deny the fact that cultivating a tiny part of a forgotten land is a small step that deserve praise since this brings a handsome hard currency in to the coffers of the Ethiopian Central Bank………. Please don’t tell me my fellow countrymen and women overnight became tea lovers of the British proportion!

Before it was a consorted campaign for coffee plantation, yesterday it was the ‘rose revolution’ today it is the Tea turn! In a country with fertile land in abundance and no lack of both rain and river water, the interest of the local Negade or the influx of foreign investors is a promising endeavour which should be encouraged.

However, no one should be under illusion as to the real purpose of these enterprises since there is still a chronic shortage of ‘real food’ for the ever-growing population and it will be a matter of time before we see yet another horrific pictures of dieing Ethiopians broadcasted all over the world. Or the philosophy of constantly admitting poverty and looking to the West for handouts is still the attractive option in the minds of our policy-makers?

The government must balance between the licensing of greater size of land for the so-called cash-crops by paving the way for a quick profit making using the existing cheap labour and the allocation of ‘weather proof’ farmlands for the cultivation of food for immediate need and for strategically important reserves. The volatile nature of the climate under which the vast majority of our farmers rely upon is still the concern for our society, not to mention the over-ploughed land with little or no productivity to match with.

Remind me who said: “The harvest in Europe depends on good or bad weather while in Eastern countries it depends on good or bad government”? ……well, call me unfashionable Marxist!

smart and assab you guys are bunch of idiots who dont want to hear any positive newws.KINIJIT NAW ?YELLLLLLLLLEM.thank you epdrf and our beloved meles.

Progress in all fields! History is in the making.

Ethiopia shall produce more of everything except illegal drugs and will employ more and gain steady prosperity. That does not mean Ethiopia will be able to convert the naysayers. They won't convert and we would not want them to convert. Ethiopia needs their negative attitude to prove their escalating pessimism wrong by escalating its progress even faster. That can go on forever beyond their untimely death from envy and from liver failure in the bars of Washington DC.

However, there is no denying that Ethiopia has an urgent need for political progress. What we need and what we lack is a genuine opposition party in Ethiopia. It should be one that keeps the government honest without creating an uprising and chaos like last time. It should be an opposition that has specific programs to implement if it was elected to the next Parliament. It should be completely free from Diaspora influence in any form. It should be openly and completely against any political party or so called “national liberation front” that seeks to break away from Ethiopia. It should be measured and deliberate in its method. It should elect the leader that it trusts who sets the agenda and the tone of the party’s platform. It can not be effective if it is led by a committee that may or may not agree with the leader on every issue. It should not be hysterical and should not seek to be driven by the rabid anti Tigray sentiment. Such sentiments lead to a slippery slope of tribal hysteria where the Amhara or the Oromo can just as well be depicted with an ugly profile like Tigray. Another cycle of such political activity will have no winners and all Ethiopians will be the losers.

Long live Ethiopia as united country!
May God teach his Ethiopian children to be wise!

this is fantastic. but i would like to say something about the rest of eth farmer/80percent/let say the all provided land cultivated at the same time it will creat job opportunities my question is the people those going to be an employe of this chance are they going to have enough income that can put them in medium class level or only for the person who own this investment?before i complete my comment i would like to give my best advise to our leader mostly they are inviting indians'tazabi

Tigray has to find some land for tea too. after all aren't they one of the top consumers of tea? they can slash some of it from humera even if the region does not belong to them. or is Tigray reserved for industries and guerilla fighters only?

Well said, "ewnetun tenageru." People in the well to do diaspora should get on with their lives wish the fortune on the land they left behind.

The latest news of increased flower and tea production is good news in that it diversifies the economy. Let's pray that improvements in the political arena follow

Peace

For those who think this is pro development, you should stop and think twice.

Why don't the Ethipian Bank let small scale Ethiopian farmers form cooperatives, lend them money and expertese so that they can grow Tea as a cash crop on their own land? After couple of years they would have mastered the technics and would not require the government any more. This Ethiopians would have become rich and paid back the loan to the Bank.

In the opposite, what this government thinks is development is to bring foreign nationals to pay them some money and exploit our country and people. A country will never be self reliant if the citizens are not given the chance to develop their nation.
I guess every foreign company who wants to exploit Ethiopia must pay some hard currency to the Government(Meles) and for sure it will end up in his pocket.
We have to be realistic and care for our people and empower them to spear head development. The people must take the lead not foreign companies.

Smart.

I like the diversification.
great work guys.

SMART and the likes,

Just swallow it and roll with it! SMART where does it say the land is taking away from the poor farmers? There is some much land in Ethiopia that can be use for many other things you clown. You’re so arrogant you cannot comprehend anything that would be good for all Ethiopians. The farmers who has small scale of farms will continue to farm and feed themselves and there families while the country continues to bring more businesses from abroad and create more job opportunities for many poor Ethiopians. I understand why some of you are so mad when Ethiopia does well, including SHAEBIANS. You simply want to see Ethiopia to fail so that you can blame it on the current party who is doing its very best in building greater economy. Ethiopians are not going to be fool by your propaganda…

Despite all the challenges and cheap politics by some of morons, Ethiopia will continue its success in education, economy and better democracy. Its matter of time when we see all the success becomes reality… it’s too bad for you X-DERG and ONLF Ethiopians who are attempting to destroy or nation along with Eritrean mafias.
Z-Mike

This is the true face of ethio regime . Theady always say we want to develope the somali region and drive poverty out and when you see any economical project that has to be implemented in ethiopia the somali region is not included . we have the most suitable land for tea production and rivers for irrigaion that never dries up. How long shall we tolerate this double moral, soon we will join our brothers in arms if we dont see improvements.

I'm very sad by this news coz again they are going to deforest 500 000hec for no good benefits rather than changing the climate and making the poor ethiopian to suffer. that is what happened in southern part of ethiopia place called "Masha sheka zone"they destryed the only found natural dens forests which is home to different kinds of huge trees and some animals "just to plant tea."way destroying natural forests and planting700million"bahirzaf"and "tea"? which is making our land dray. please save our natural forests and animals which is living in it.

please save our natural forests!!!

Z-make,
Where will you get 500,000 hectares of land which is equal to 5000km2 that is arable and not inhabited by humans?
Don't tell me a foreign company will clear 5000km2 of forested mountainous area to plant. It defeats common sense.
Brother what I am trying to tell you is to think twice before you start singing the hymns.
I have you seen the news of the drowned Ethiopians, Why are they running from the development you so religiously preach? Smell the coffee.

ass mart,(smart)
since your small brain is filled with hate it can not tell the difference betwen a good policy and bad policy.even if i tell you it will be an over dose for your simple mind.foreign investment is not only necessary to a given economy it is also one of the life lines.let alone poor econmy even the most advanced economies can not fulfill their economy plans without foreign investment.look at the us.you are busy calculating how much money goes to the pms pocet.get life bro happy holidays