Saudi Star's Multi-Billion-Dollar Ethiopia Farm Project Leaves Vast Tracts of Land Idle: Report

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[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- A new investigation by Nigerian publication Premium Times has raised questions over the performance and human costs of Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc's large-scale rice investment in Ethiopia, reporting that much of the company's 14,020-hectare land portfolio in Gambella region remains idle more than 15 years after the project was launched.