This Article Agriculture in Ethiopia is composed of Creative Common Content.\n The Original Article can be location at WikiPedia.org.\n \n\nAgriculture in Ethiopia is the foundation of the countrys economy accounting for half of gross domestic product GDP 83.9 of exports and 80 of total employment.\n\n Ethiopias agriculture is plagued by periodic drought soil degradation caused by overgrazing deforestation high population density high levels of taxation and poor infrastructure making it difficult and expensive to get goods to market. Yet agriculture is the countrys most promising resource. A potential exists for selfsufficiency in grains and for export development in livestock grains vegetables and fruits. As many as 4.6 million people need food assistance annually.\n\nAgriculture accounts for 46.3 of the GDP 83.9 of exports and 80 of the labour force. Many other economic activities depend on agriculture including marketing processing and export of agricultural products. Production is overwhelmingly of a subsistence nature and a large part of commodity exports are provided by the small agricultural cashcrop sector. Pr