Corteva Agriscience, the agricultural division of DowDuPoint, the world's giant agriculture,…
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Corteva Agriscience, the agricultural division of DowDuPoint, the world's giant agriculture, materials science and speciality Products industry launches its service in Ethiopia today at Sheraton Addis, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Addis Ababa.The company mainly focus on providing innovative seeds, crop protection and digital solutions for the producers and consumers. The previously implemented project of DuPont Pioneer has a success story of producing advanced maize seed adoption in collaboration with the Ethiopian government and the United States Agency for International Development(USAID). Now, the company is newly branded as Corteva agriscience and focuses only on agriculture. The company will help Ethiopia to use the initiative created by the recently announced partnership of the US and the Ethiopian governments because. Ethiopia is one of the 12 countries chosen by the United States for Five years Feed the Future strategy for food security, build resilience and accelerate economic growth. Even though over 80% of Ethiopian based their living on agriculture the production capacity couldn’t feed the whole population of Ethiopia. A data gathered in March 2019 shows close to eight million Ethiopians are affected by food insecurity according to Food and Agriculture Organization for United Nations(FAO).
