Addis Ababa (February 6, 2020) – CEO of Horizon Plantations PLC, one of the MIDROC Ethiopia Investment Group Companies, Mr. Jemal Ahmed, elucidated that misconception about private investment, bureaucratic non-responsiveness and complicated monitoring by state actors are among the major challenges of business people engaged in the Ethiopian agricultural sector.
The CEO was speaking on Wednesday, February 5, 2020, as one of the panelists on the “Addis Weg”, New Dialogue, which is a periodically facilitated expert’s round table by the Office of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia where he highlighted key issues and challenges of agricultural investment in the country.