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Building green economy for healthy progress
Reta Tamirat
It is necessary to exert ample effort to attain the transition goal to industry-led economy and to come up with a green economy that takes climate resilient green development in to consideration, Ethiopia is working eagerly. So as to realize this, the government has devised and applied Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) strategy. Investors, devoted in the manufacturing industries, have undeniable role in achieving the green development goals. While delivering standardized and quality products to be proficient in the business market, they also carry out various activities to protect the environment.
Including environment protection and climate change issues in the production system is becoming a criterion to compete in the business market. Hence, investors are likely to supply quality products through the free market competition while meeting those criteria.
To see how manufacturing investors are performing in the implementation of CRGE strategy, corporate communication directorate at Ministry of Industry in harmony with Environment and Climate Change, Industry Zone Development Directorate had conducted a survey and assessed the performance of several manufacturing industries in different areas of the nation.
The evaluation primarily focused on drawing attention to the journey of the manufacturing industries in registering concrete performance/actions and bringing about sound solutions, and pointing out the obstacles that they had faced while implementing the strategy.
Hamaresa Oil factory, Cocacola East African Bottling, Abyssinia Tannery, Kombolcha Textile S. Co, MAA garment and textile factory, C and E brothers’ Steel industry, Mesobo Cement, Dereba Cement, Steel RMI factory, Kanoria Africa Textile Factory, Luna Export Slaughter House Plc., Shemu Soap
Factory, Hawassa industry Park (Arvid Company) and Alanna Slaughter House are among the evaluated manufacturing industries.
Amongst the appraised manufacturing industries, a large amount of the factories have displayed increasingly great performances. Aside from the technologies that they use to minimize power and expenditure, most of the industries have green areas in their compounds. Moreover, they recycle the wastages that are discharged from the factories for different purposes.
To securely remove hazardous wastages, minimize emission of gas, decontaminate the environment, save energy and cost, the manufacturing industries utilize diverse methods such as using bio mass energy to produce power, Effluent Treatment Plant, Zero liquid discharge technology, exhausted heat reuse, solar panel, and many other technologies along with the execution of the green economic policy.
For the reason that the performance of these companies has an essential role in accomplishing the green economic development path, Ministry of Industry is setting up to share their unsurpassed
Practices to different manufacturing industries.
Besides generating huge amount of foreign currency for the nation, these manufacturing industries have so far created massive job opportunities for many citizens in every corner of the nation. Moreover, the citizens are captivating the technology expansion as a golden opportunity to fill their skill gaps and update their knowledge on new technologies.
Dereba cement factory has preeminent practices regarding the green economic development in the existence of ‘Green Belt’. The whole idea of the green belt is building a tree between every factory and house intervals to reduce the sound and dust emitted from the factory.
In addition, the factory has given awareness creation training for its higher and medium officials regarding Environmental Management System (EMS). An international company known as Alanna
Slaughter House uses Bio-filter technology. The factory uses this technology in order to minimize the bad smell exuded from the production. Bio-filter technology primarily disconnects the bad smell from polluting the environment by keeping it in the factory.
Another cement factory called ‘Mesobo cement factory’ has also an extraordinary practices. In order to implement the international trend of using bio mass, the factory has bought a machine that produce power from Sesame husk. The director expressed that throughout the assessment few barriers were observed that manufacturing industries faced during implementing CRGE. Among such obstacles, lack of technology expansion, inaccessibility of loan and credit service concerning green economy activities, lack of technology expansion and problem in management skill are but to mention a few.
The government is supposed to give training to create awareness and fill the knowledge gap regarding environment protection. It shall also provide experience sharing programs and conduct marketing researches so as to solve these problems.
However, manufacturing industries and concerned bodies should play their role in implementing the green economy development. In so doing it has created the favorable ground for India’s farmers to get unremitting returns from their cotton yields.
The corporation supplies cottons to India’s gigantic cotton a leap from agriculture-led grinding factories. It as well feeds the export economy to the industry-driven one, the market. A wide cotton production campaign experience of various countries showcase that was mounted in 1970 to curb the shortage of a government’s intervention role is indispensable.
Cotton that beset the country. The corporation in some Asian countries, which portrayed a swift, had played a decisive role in creating a growth, in the presence of market gaps and sustainable market to the products. In such a government’s ownership of decisive development way the responsibilities of the Corporation are enterprises (what we now call public enterprises), intertwined with the country’s cotton industry. Respective governments had played an immense The Corporation is charged with the following role leading the economy and bolstering the India salient responsibilities as per India’s Textile private sector.
In order to allow its industrial products policy chalked out in 1985. These countries have development agencies Stabilizing Market engaged in agriculture, trade, manufacturing elbow their ways through the global market the government supports the supply of quality So as to secure a sustainable market for industry, power supply and infrastructural inputs in a sustainable manner. Import and export Indian Cotton farmers, when the price of cottons development, transport and Telecom. Various policies, strategies, regulations and procedures falls setting a minimum price and buying the studies throw light on the fact that the intervention are chalked out regularly and implemented.
It has more Aside from subsidizing farmers, conducting in ensuring industrial inputs and hastening than ten councils. Commodity Board, Coffee a regular trade, allowing the Indian Textile agricultural and industrial uplifts. In this article, we shall see the experiences Board, the State Trading Corporation of India, Industry enjoy the required input supply.
Exporting Cotton of government-run development enterprises Project Engineering Corporation, Mines, Cotton Cooperation of India are to mention but a few. Towards the fulfillment of government set engaged in industrial development, export and in 1970, India was a country that used to absorb goals purchasing cotton and exporting it.
