{"id":1282,"date":"2013-10-18T10:56:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T09:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/new\/ie\/news\/beer-barley\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T14:45:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T14:45:39","slug":"beer-barley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/beer-barley\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer & Barley"},"content":{"rendered":"
Beer and hard work don’t often go hand in hand, but for Ethiopian Almaz Tadsaa they are the essential ingredients of her farming success.<\/p>\n
A small-scale farmer close to Galema mountain in Southern Ethiopia, Almaz is expecting to sell four and a half tonnes of malt barley, when she harvests her crops this Autumn. She is hoping to earn more than \u20ac1,000 from the transaction \u2013 a record for this hard-working mother of four.<\/p>\n
Thousands of farmers-members of Galema Farmers Union are now growing malting barley and selling to local breweries. Not long ago Ethiopia’s brewing industry was importing most of its barley from overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Beer and hard work don’t often go hand in hand, but for Ethiopian Almaz Tadsaa they are the essential ingredients of her farming success.A small-scale farmer close to Galema mountain in Southern Ethiopia, Almaz is expecting to sell four and a half tonnes of malt barley, when she harvests her crops this Autumn. She is hoping to earn more than \u20ac1,000 from the transaction \u2013 a record for this hard-working mother of four.<\/p>\n Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[637],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n