Addis Fortune (Addis Ababa)
7 April 2008
A native of the Gerar Jarso Wereda in the North Shoa Zone of the Oromia Regional State, Mekete Debalke is a farmer who sweats to support his extended family of nine. Cultivating wheat, sorghum, barley, pea and teff on his eight hectare plot of land, the 40 year old is admired by his fellow farmers for his surplus bi-annual harvests. Unfortunately, Mekete seems to have found himself in a defeating ...
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