In May 2019 The Reporter cited the African Regional Hemp & Cannabis Report by Washington-based New Frontier Data, which put Ethiopia’s cannabis and hemp potential near USD 10 billion in industry outlook terms.
The figure was a market projection, not a harvest already in the ground, and it arrived while many African states debated medical cannabis laws, export licenses, and how to avoid simply repeating colonial commodity traps.
For Ethiopia the number fed investor talk more than immediate farm policy, but it still entered the public record of agribusiness dreams in 2019.
Kept as agribusiness archive, the $10 billion cannabis valuation is a dated research claim from the late-2010s commodity boom.
Sources: The Reporter Ethiopia