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Jump to full article: All-Africa.com, 2003-02-17
Author: Gebre-Michael Paulos / The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
Intro: If agricultural products such as tobacco leaf, barley or malt, cotton, wheat and oil seeds which are inputs to the locally existing cigarette factory, beer factories, cotton textile mills, flour mills and to the edible oil plants respectively are not encouraged to be locally produced, the Agriculture Development Led Industrialization strategy (ADLI) becomes meaningless.
In the last five years, Ethiopia has spent birr 185 million in foreign exchange for the two commodities.
Therefore, Ethiopia should discourage the importation of malt and tobacco leaf because the country's external balance of trade is really in an alarming situation as it is indicated here below.
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