New route opens promising future for specialty coffee
BY www.capitalethiopia.com Photo from Social Media A new asphalt road that links the source of Ethiopian specialty coffee grower of Bensa Woreda of the Sidama Zone with the regional center of Hawassa was inaugurated in the presence of top government officials on Tuesday April 21. The 51 km concrete asphalt road project is constructed by a local contractor Alemayehu Ketema General Contractor at a cost of 427 million birr. Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn inaugurated the road that links three weredas of the Sidama Zone with the SNNPS regional state seat. The contractor was pressed hard to complete the assignment on schedule as the project stretches across difficult terrain and a long rainy season that is common in the SNNPS had reduced the pace of the work. A revision of the project’s design that was made after the contract was awarded was another challenge on the work. The road that reaches Bensa will surely have high economic value to making possible transportation of