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USAID Hands Over Equipment Worth Approximately $800,000
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June 20, 2017
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (June 20, 2017)—The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), through its Agricultural Growth Program-Livestock Market Development (AGP-LMD), today handed over approximately $800,000 (nearly 18.4 million Ethiopian Birr) worth of dairy processing equipment to 24 grantees operating in the Amhara, Oromia, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples (SNNP), and Tigray regions. Through these grants, thousands of smallholder farmers will have access to reliable buyers, and tens of thousands of consumers will gain access to formally processed dairy and meat products.