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SUGAR CORPORATION CREATED MORE THAN 350,000 JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN LAST GTP

Sugar Corporation has created more than 350,000 job opportunities, Project and Plan Division of the Corporation disclosed.

According to Deputy Director General of the Division Ato Tolesa Gedefa, the achievement registered in creating job

opportunities during the first GTP years was more than successful.

The Corporation has planned to create 200,000 additional job opportunities during the stated period and created opportunities for more than 350,000 compatriots.Ato Tolesa Gedefa

Project and Plan Division Deputy Director General » P.3

CORPORATION PLANS TO LIFT UP SUGAR PRODUCTION TO 42 MILLION QUINTALS

• Plans to Get 1.3 Billion Dollar from ExportSugar Corporation plans to lift up its sugar production to 42 million quintals a year by the end of the Second Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP). It

also plans to earn 1.3 billion dollar from a year from export.

By the end of the plan years the Corporation will complete

Kuraz 1,2,3 and 5; Beles 1,2,3 as well as Wolkayit new sugar factories. Accordingly the Corporation’s current 3.7million quintals » P.4

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VARIOUS SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURESESTABLISHED NEAR SUGAR DEVELOPMENT AREAS

* Works enabling Farmers/Pastoralists grow sugarcane have been done.

Sugar Corporation`s Public Organization and participation Division disclosed the set up of various social service institutions and infrastructures to members of the communities who reside around sugar development

areas in the first Growth and Transformation Plan years.

According to the division, the Corporation, from 2011 to 2015, has built schools, health posts, health centers and gravel

roads as well as facilitated » P.5

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Diaspora of Oromiya origin visited Arjo-Deddessa Sugar Factory>> 5

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Residents and Investors of Jawi and Fendika Districts plant Sugarcane >>6

Sugar Corporation Staffs Plant Seedlings>> 6

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Message of the Director GeneralFew years passed since we, having great vision, started endeavoring to register continuous development. Hence, consecutive double digit economic growth is recorded due to the efforts made during these years.

The change has demanded our day in and day out planning and executing it. Our great developmental works of the first GTP are reflections of this. As everybody understands many encouraging results are obtained in economic, political and social sectors.

It is known that the sugar industry sub sector is one of the nation’s major focuses in the First Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP). Carrying out extensive works on the sugar industry during the past five years, it has now become possible to expand the sugar industry commenced in 1946E.C. By strengthening this pattern of growth in the coming years too, it is not difficult to envision Ethiopia standing as one of the world’s ten leading sugar producing countries by 2023.

Expansion works of Wonji Shewa and Fincha sugar factories which were started before 2003E.C, has greatly boosted the production capacity of the two factories during the last five GTP years. The government, transferring the ownership of Arjo Dedessa Sugar Factory from a Pakistani investor to its own, has brought the factory erection job into completion and hence inaugurated it on the just concluded Ethiopian year. Installations of Tendaho and Kessem Sugar Factories are also completed and they all began test production.

The Corporation, in its sugar cane development effort, has planted cane on 65,363 hectares of land. In comparison with the 30,397 hectares of land covered with cane at the beginning of the GTP, it has shown 215% rise. In terms of job opportunity, it has created job for 350,000 citizens. Doing this it has improved the life standards of people living in the low land areas of our country where the sugar development projects are in

progress. Encouraging result is also achieved in turning Omo Kuraz pastoralists to semi-farmers who rarely were farming. People around the project areas are enjoying the infrastructures and of various social services. On the other hand, the wide participation of private and state development firms on the sector’s development effort, the higher capacity building and technology transfer opportunities which hence are made possible are among the successes of the completed plan time.

The long distance travel we made to attain the goal of the first five years plan on the sugar Industry Sub Sector is already concluded. However, the expected result has not yet come due to the development of infrastructures is more required in places where there was none in the lowland areas of the country at which almost all of the new sugar development projects are being carried out; the high investment the sector naturally demands as well as due to the limited implementation capacity we had. But, now decisive foundations works are laid which will make achieving these goals hereafter easier.

Using these vital foundations laid, eight new sugar factories are going to be completed by the end of the second GTP (2015-2020) and which will help to boost the current three million 650 thousand quintals annual sugar production of the nation to 42 million quintals . Accordingly, it is planned to get 1.3 billion dollar from the sugar to be exported to the international market out

H.E Ato Shiferaw JarsoDirector General of Sugar Corporation at The Rank of Minister

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of which 12 million 220 thousand quintals are refined sugar and 17 million 740 thousand are raw. Activities are already started to increase the 96,000 hectars of land covered with sugar cane to 325,324.

On the other hand, a plan is set to increase the power which is generated from sugar by-products to 709.5 mega watt by 2020. And, out of this the sugar industries, satisfying their own demand, supply the national power grid with 448 mega watts. In creating job opportunities the Corporation has planned to open 1.15 million jobs on permanent , temporary and contract basis at sugar development projects and sugar factories including the head office of the Corporation as well as small and micro enterprises.

Parallel with sugar production, preparing animal feed from by-products of sugar and supplying it to the market is planned so as to make our country benefit from its enormous livestock resources. Giving much attention to parallel products such as ranching, diary, bee hiving as well as crop, vegetables and fruit production are the other focus areas of the Second Growth and Transformation Plan.

The sugar industry sub sector, in the Second Growth and Transformation Plan, which will enable us register a great success needs more effort. Therefore, we have to consolidate our efforts of the first Growth and Transformation Plan and taking a lesson from our short comings, we are also expected to improve our performance more.

As we are working with limited resources of the country, we have to strengthen our saving and thereby profit from each resources we have at hand. I believe we have built great capacity which will enable us fulfill our great goals in the sector. On this occasion I call up on all the leaderships and employees of the Corporation as well as the stake holders to work hand in glove as a development army so as to use our capacity and bring the result we aspire.

I wish the New Year to be a year of peace, happiness and success.

Happy New Year.

SUGAR CORPORATION OPPORTUNITIES ...

According to Ato Tolesa the job opportunities are created by the Corporation, the various contractors engaged in different works of the Corporation as well as by small and micro enterprises organized at sugar development project areas.

In line with the creation of job opportunities new small towns are emerging around project areas, he also added.

The expansion projects carried out on the existing sugar factories by the first GTP years have increased the country`s sugar production by 38%. Hence the annual sugar production of the nation has increased from 291 thousand tons in 2002 E.C to 365 thousand tons now, he further explained.

Recalling the various activities the Corporation , in a bid to generate power out of the by-products of sugar and supply it to the national power grid, has been carrying out during the first GTP, currently 30 mega watts electric power is being exported to the national power grid from Wonji and Fincha sugar factories, he has mentioned.

As for the sugarcane plantation endeavor, the Corporation has cultivated sugarcane on 65,363 hectares of land. Currently 96,000 thousand hectars are covered with sugar cane and its performance has shown 215 % when weighted against the initial 30,397 hectares.

In the completed Growth and Transformation years by completing Wonji Shewa and Fincha Sugar Factories’ expansion which started before 2003E.C their production capacity has grown. In addition to this Arjo Deddesa Sugar Factory is inaugurated and finishing their installation works; Tendaho and Kessem Sugar factories have started test production.

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CORPORATION PLANS TO LIFT UP...annual sugar production will increase close tenfold which is about 42 million quintals. To attain this goal 325,324 hectares of land will be covered with sugar cane including the currently developed 96 thousand hectares.

Hence, the Corporation plans to get 1.3 billion dollars from the export of 12 million 220,000 quintals fine sugar and 17 million 740,000 quintals raw sugar. In a related development by fostering efforts to send electricity generated from sugar by-products to the national grid, the Corporation has set a plan of generating 709.5 Mega Watt out of this 448 Mega Watt to be exported to the

national power grid by mid 2020.The Corporation has also set a plan of creating job opportunities to over 1.15 Million citizens during the second GTP years on permanent, contractual and casual basis. Alongside with the Corporation, small and micro enterprises as well as the various contractors engaged in different works of the Corporation are among others expected to create the opportunities. Accordingly, number of permanent workers in the new and existing sugar factories will increase from 13,267 to 65,254.

On the other hand, along with the sugar development activity

EMPLOYEES OF TANA BELES SUGAR DEVELOPMENT PROJECTASSISTING HIV/AIDS ORPHANS

Employees of Tana Beles Sugar Development Project are assisting 10 orphans at Jawi District of Amhara Regional State.

Contributing ten birr on monthly basis, all staff members of the project are assisting ten HIV/AIDS orphans on the district and hence enable them attend their school classes properly, Project`s HIV/AIDS Protection and Control

Task Force Deputy Chairman Ato Alemu Abrha has disclosed.

The Deputy Chairman said each child is getting 600 Birr every month. Furthermore, the children are being supplied with clothes and school kits annually, the report of the Project`s Public Relation Department has stated.

TRAINING AIMING AT ENHANCING FEMALE PARTICIPATION AND EQUITY GIVEN

Training that aims at creating awareness of enhancing female participation and equity is given to employees selected from different divisions of Tendaho Sugar Factory`s Dubti and Asayita district offices. The training was given from July 17, 2015 to July 22, 2015.

Speaking on the occasion the factory`s Gender Officer W/t

Mulu Assefa said the gender related activities carried out at the factory with the aim of increasing female participation and benefit have brought change through time.

According to her there are 600 female workers in the factory. Mentioning the increasing number of female staffs in all other sectors, she calls up on

the participant female trainees to stand for their rights in an organized way and play their own role for the success of the development effort of the sector . W/t Mulu also discloses the factory’s plan in incorporating sister factories` experiences to increase female participation and benefit in the sector.

the Corporation plans to undertake ranching, diary, bee hiving, poultry and horticulture activities at a larger scale. By using sugar by-products it has also planned to set up factories to produce 2.4 million tones of animal feed and distribute it to farmers and pastoralists.

With regard to enhancing the role of women in the sector’s development effort, the Corporation has a plan of rising women`s decision making by 40% and bring their share in staffing to 45%.

The Corporation, during the second GTP years, has also planned to give more attention to environment protection activities. Hence, forest, soil and water conservation activities will be carried out widely.

In relation to this the Corporation has a plan to plant 15 million seedlings around sugar factories and sugar development projects by the stated period and thereby get an environmental protection certificate from the concerned body.

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VARIOUS SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURES...provision of flour mills and potable water supply.

The Corporation has also arranged an experience sharing plat form to enable pastoralists of Omo Kuraz Sugar Development Project as well as Tendaho and Kesem sugar factories take a lesson from out growers of Wonji Shewa Sugar Factory and thereby become organized in sugarcane out grower associations. It has also provided them irrigable land so that they could start work soon.

According to the division works which benefit farmers organized in unions more at Wonji Shewa and Fincha sugar factories have continued strengthened.

On the other hand, the Corporation has trained about two thousand youth members of the farmers and pastoralists around sugar development projects and sugar factories in tractor and machine operation, carpentering, building, painting, plastering and many other professions at the cost of 4.2 million Birr

and thereby deployed them into work. Similarly, more than 1,300 leaders of small and micro enterprises are made to take skill up-grading trainings at the expense of 500,000 Birr.

Series of meetings with more than 101,600 farmers, pastoralists, clan leaders, and administration bodies were held during the first Growth and Transformation Plan years which have enabled them both reach at consensus on decisive issues, the division further disclosed.

DIASPORA OF OROMIYA ORIGIN VISITED ARJO-DEDDESSA SUGAR FACTORY

A delegation of Diaspora of Oromiya Origin visited Arjo-Diddessa Sugar Factory on August 5, 2015.

A delegation of Diaspora of about 100 members visited the factory with ambassadors and members of Oromiya Youth Association.

In his welcoming speech the factory General Manager Ato Abera Mammo said, Ethiopia

has planned to export sugar after fulfilling local demand.

The factory which is currently producing white sugar ; has the capacity to start exporting its product to the international market which is a pride for the Diaspora, he also added .

Ato Abera urged the visiting diaspora to build the image of their country as well as to take their part in investing in

the region using the conducive environment created.

The delegation members on their part said they are happy by what they have seen and promised to serve as ambassadors in building the image of their homeland.

In a related development another team of diaspora of Oromiya origin has visited Wonji-Shewa Sugar Factory.

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RESIDENTS AND INVESTORS OF JAWI AND FENDIKA DISTRICTS PLANT SUGARCANE

Residents of Fendika District and Investors at Jawi District of Amhara Regional State plant sugarcane on two hectares of land of the project and they pledged to do so in the future.

Speaking on the occasion Sergeant Tesera Kesse, who took part in the cane plantation hiring 25 wage laborers, said the benefit he is getting working with Tana Beles Sugar

Development Project has made him participate in the cane planting campaign. He further went on saying “We are getting higher income due to the inception of the project at the area. An asphalt road is constructed because of

the project. Moreover, many youth are also benefiting from the job opportunities made available by the project and other participating institutions” he added.

Similarly, Ato Beshir Nega who also took part in the plantation campaign employing ten laborers, said the benefit Tana Beles Sugar Development Project is giving to the area’s environment has

initiated him to render the practical assistance. 2,707 hectares of the project’s land is planted with sugar cane in 2007 EC budget year. The land of the project covered with cane has reached 12,716 hectares, it was disclosed.

Cane Planting and Nurturing Manager, Ato Mekonnen Adem said wide area of land is covered with cane at a very short time. He tributes the higher result registered to the daily labourersemployees, and members of top management, the report from the Project`s Public Relation Unit has also stated.

participants of the cane plantation campaign

SUGAR CORPORATION STAFFS PLANT SEEDLINGS

Employees of the head office of Sugar Corporation plant seedlings on July 29, 2015 at Kottebe forest area of Yekka Sub City.

On the occasion, the Environmental Protection representative of the Sub City disclosed that hundred percent of the seedlings planted by the Corporation during the last three years at the area have satisfactorily grown up which enables it rank first among governmental offices. This makes the Corporation lead the green movement at the forefront.

Speaking on the occasion Communication Directorate Director of the Corporation Ato Zemedkun Tekle said the seedling planting program, which is currently being carried out at national level under the motto “Let Us

Inherit Green Area For the Next Generation” , has increased the country`s forest coverage considerably which was less than 3%. He further noted that as such planting programs which are playing significant role in protecting the nation’s ecology benefit the country from carbon trading, staffs of the Corporation should nurture it whenever they carry out their duties. Organizer of the seedling planting program and Team Leader of Social Affairs of the Corporation W/ro Senait Belay meanwhile urged coworkers to take care of the seedlings as it is not enough to plant.

Employees who took part in the program have planted olive and podocarpus seedlings and each of the latter’s seedling costs 37 birr, it was learnt. » P.7

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FACTORY PLEDGES TO CONTINUE EFFORT TO BENEFIT LOCAL COMMUNITYMetahara Sugar Factory pledges to continue its effort in benefitting the local community. The factory has given 317 Thousand birr to train 50 youth at Adama Technical and Vocational College, Public Relation Unit of the factory has disclosed.

The training jointly prepared by Sugar Corporation and Metahara Sugar Factory was held at the college. 50 trainees are given training on plastering, building and carpentering professions and were given certificates upon completion of the 45 days training program. Speaking on the occasion held at the factory on August 8,

2015, factory General Manager Ato Zenebe Yimam disclosed the factory’s commitment in continuing benefiting the local community in the future.

The General Manager also discloses that encouraging results are achieved by working with neighboring countryside districts.

The support given for the trainees is a manifestation of the numerous supports the factory has been delivering for the local community. The trained youth will be given market ties and job opportunities with the factory, he further added. According to him the trained youth should

be exemplary to others who need similar supports and work opportunities and are expected to prepare themselves for quality and competency.

The trainees, through their representative on their part, said they are grateful for the training opportunity which will enables them create their own job opportunities. They also pledged to work hard and change themselves and their community.

Sugar Corporation has spent 317 thousand Birr to the trainees’ per dime expenses, training fee as well as accommodation costs of the trainees, it was learnt.

On a related development, staffs and local community of Wolkayit Sugar Development Project planted seedlings on August 3, 2015 at Meles Park located around the factory with a motto “Environment Development for Sustainable Development”. Public Relations Unit of the project has disclosed that 600

project workers, members of Federal Police, construction institutions and the local community took part on the seedling program

Project General Manager Ato Amenay Mesfin ,on the occasion, said the seedling planting, beyond assisting our country`s effort in

building green economy intends to protect the nation from deforestation and soil erosion. “As Wolkayit Sugar Development Project is found on lowland it is mandatory that we stick on our endeavor of reforestation” he finally remarked.

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TRAINING GIVEN TO KURAZ SUGAR DEVELOPMENT PROJECT SUGARCANE OUT GROWERS

Awareness raising training program is given to the leaderships of Kuraz Sugar Development Project sugarcane out growers. According to the project’s Public organization, Compensation and Rehabilitation Division`s Compensation and Rehabilitation Team, awareness raising training programs of different topics are given to cane out growers organized in associations and hence they become sure of benefitting more from the

sector.

According to the Team Head Ato Getu Debebe, awareness creating trainings are given to 49 leaderships of pastoralists associations of Kukulimiri Eligobiya, Belilong and Gura old localities of the project.

The topics of the training focus on the process of organizing associations and the role leadership, Ato Getu further noted.

Project`s Public Organization, Compensation and Rehabilitation Deputy General Manager Ato Asres Adaro on his part said pastoralists who are to be gathered at four localities of Kaffa and Bench-Maji zones are going to be organized in associations by this budget year so as to enable them start growing and providing sugar cane to Kuraz Number One Sugar Factory, the construction of which is closer to completion.

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Sweet Ethiopian New Year!

F.D.R.E President Visiting Arjo Didessa

Oromiya High Delegation Visiting Fincaha Sugar factoryTendaho Sugar Factory

Inauguration of Arjo Didessa Sugar Factory

At Wolkayit Sugar Development Project

Among the main actions on sugar development sector in the

budget year