The Ethiopian Industrial Inputs Development Enterprise (EIIDE), which was established four years ago, said the low performance of the manufacturing sector was attributable to its inefficient capacity. The manufacturing sector shows low performance mainly because of shortage of inputs supply. According to the Enterprise’s Board Chairman and Trade Minister, Melaku Alebel, the low export performance of the manufacturing sector is attributable to EIIDE’s inefficient capacity of supplying industrial inputs. Ato Melaku said the government is planning to capacitate the enterprise with a view to improving the performance of industries. The enterprise is working to address the possible shortcomings by purchasing inputs from local market or importing from abroad on competitive price.”The government established the Ethiopian Industrial Input Development Enterprise in 2015 with regulation no.

Source: Ethiopian News September 25, 2018 09:45 UTC