These camels no doubt were stolen from Ogaden and Afar regions.
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Ethiopia to export 20,000 camels to Egypt
(ENA) SAAFI Trading and Agro Industry PLC [a well-known Woyanne affiliated company], Ethiopia’s second largest live animal exporting company, envisages to export 20,000 camels valued at six million USD abroad this year. It also called the government to strengthen control on boarder livestock contraband trade, which it said, disabling exporter’s competitive capacity in the global market.
In an exclusive interview with ENA on Saturday, Company General Manger Mohammed Mohamud said his company would export the stated number of camels to Egypt.
Mohammed said both the quality and quality of camels the company exports and the amount of export revenue the country obtains from the organization’s export has been growing steadily.
He said the country is expected to earn about three million USD additional revenue from the company’s camel export this year that is likely to show a 50 percent growth when compared to that of the amount it secures last year.
The GM said the company, a three-time award winner for its outstanding export performance, exports camels valued at 2.5-3 million USD to Egypt annually on average.
Concerning the support of the government provides to the sector, Mohammed pointed out that the government has been giving the necessary support and incentives to exporters engaged in the sector, which he described as “motivating”.
Referring to illegal trade, Mohammed pointed out that contraband trade in livestock animal, which he said has been growing from time to time, is dwarfing local exporters capacity on the one hand while preventing the nation to get the expected hard currency from the sector.
He further said contraband traders from neighboring countries have been smuggling cattle and camels out of the country that has resulted in the increase of prices locally at an alarming rate while reducing legal exporter’s market competitiveness globally.
“Some times contraband traders from neighboring countries are more powerful than us (legal local exporters) in local market forcing us to seem an onlookers rather than buyers”, Mohammed indicated.
The GM urged the government to tighten its control mechanisms against boarder domestic animal contraband trade in order to boost the capacity of local exporters thereby enable the nation to enjoy the benefits it deserves.
He also said lack of plots of land that are required to keep cattle temporarily or until they are exported and shortage of animal fodder are some of the other problems that have to be addressed.
The company also received a bronze medal from Prime Minister Vampire Meles Zenawi this year for being the second biggest live animal exporting company in terms of generating hard currency for the nation.
4 thoughts on “Woyanne to export 20,000 camels to Egypt (ENA)”
“These camels no doubt were stolen from Ogaden and Afar.”
So are the Church articles, the paintings, the artifacts, the golden crosses, the golden crowns. So are the thousands of the Ethiopians babies, the Gondar lands, the sesames, the cottons – most of all theses valuable properties are stolen properties from the Ethiopian poor peasants. Meles, being the chief of the thieves, his agents are the Al Amoudis, the Mohammad, the Ahmads, the Alies, the Rhmans, the Saids, the Fatimas, and the Imams – all these are Ethiopian Muslims. I call them the home-grown Ethiopian terrorists. The selling of the stolen camels from the Ethiopian farmers to the Arabs shows there is an illegal active trade going on between the Ethiopian Muslims and the other African Arabs. When these Ethiopian Muslims are done with the selling of stolen camels, they will steal the Ethiopian caws, goats, sheep, cats, donkeys, horses, mules, dogs, wild animals, and birds, and will sell them to their Arab brothers after they have received the word “merhaba” from their chief Meles Zenawi. I know these wealthy Muslims are conspiring against the few poor Ethiopian Muslims, Christians, Jews, and others by stealing their properties and selling them at the highest cost. Finally the poor Ethiopians are the ones that can easily get hurt because they cannot afford to buy even a chicken, for every thing is being sold out for another foreign nation.
Ethiopia has one million camel,
The reproductive performance of Ethiopian camels is poor.
Age at puberty is 5 years, age at first calving is 6 years, the calving interval is 2-3 years. Annual mortality is estimated 5%. Melaku et al. have calculated the camel population grows annually 2.5 % .And an off take rate of 1% is stressing to the population. Camels are mainly kept for milk and this is in equilibrium with nature. Drought and disease are rampant. Exporting means it is like mining the available resource. Think sustainability.
“Let the world burn if I die” think for the next generation
Once I was in Afar with my Land cruiser Toyota. I asked the pastoralist in Exchange for camel, at first he said 16 camels, then in few minutes he said 10 again he said he would not like to exchange his camel with a car. I asked him why? He replied “what am I going to do with the car, where can a get oil to run it, spare part, also there is no good road in Afar. It is at this time that I learned ABC of sustainable livelihood. With the souring oil price Animal power would be important (DAP). Hence the government should protect our animal resource. They are environmental friendly and affordable technology.
It is similar with oxen; cattle are sold from lowlands to highlands for plowing purpose, at the end they are slaughtered for meat. Now lowland cattle are exported. The price of meat is rising. In few years there will be shortage of plough oxen. Ethiopia has one million pair of oxen plowing annually 10 million hectare of land. This is equivalent to 250,000 tractors!!! the contribution is immense.
But when I requested the Ministry of Agriculture to use Molasses produced in sugar factories, change it to block and use it as drought feeding strategy. They replied no as far as there is profit we will export it to Arabia!!
EPRDF is selling HIV orphaned babies!!!1
This reminded me one saying “As far as there is profit we will sell even the mother land”
Oh Meless this is my last advice, please please think wisely and act reasonably.
Weyanes are known for being habitual liers. That is just in their edict. But, some people may not know that they are also the “Lieba” of “Liebotch”!
excuse me all but i couldnt quite get why this is very bad for the poor afar farmer who gets the chance to sell the camels to exporters to get some money. why has everything to do with woyane be wrong? may be we should learn to appreciate what is right and condemn what is wrong. do not judge the action by the person,if it is even woyane that it doing this things. please enough with the labeling.