(right) Catherine Colonna, French foreign minister, Semereta Sewasew, state minister for Finance, Roland Kobia, EU ambassador (left). The French Development Agency granted 28 million euros to Ethiopia for agricultural assistance and electric facility restoration at the French Embassy last week. Ethiopia's agricultural sector contributes 80pc of exports and 40pc of the domestic GDP. Coffee is the number cultivated crop, followed by pulses and khat. The sector employs close to 70pc of the labour force, according to data from the ILO. Agriculture has been the ground for political revolutions 'land to the tiller' and will offshoot economic revolution if managed right.
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