Agriculture

WASHINGTON, March  31, 2015– The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors today approved US$350 million to help the government Ethiopian increase agricultural productivity and enhance market access for smallholder farmers in more than 150 of its rural districts. The new financing, from the World Bank’s highly-concessional lending agency- the International Development Association, will further boost the development potential of Ethiopia’s agriculture industry which accounts for 45 percent of the country’s total output and occupies…