{"id":277040,"date":"2019-05-25T02:52:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T06:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiXmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvZXRoaW9waWFzLWNhbm5hYmlzLXBvdGVudGlhbC12YWx1ZWQtdXNkLTEwLWJpbGxpb27SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:54:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:54:37","slug":"a-u-s-study-valued-ethiopias-cannabis-and-hemp-potential-at-about-10-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277040","title":{"rendered":"A U.S. study valued Ethiopia\u2019s cannabis and hemp potential at about $10 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 The Reporter cited the African Regional Hemp & Cannabis Report by Washington-based New Frontier Data, which put Ethiopia\u2019s cannabis and hemp potential near USD 10 billion in industry outlook terms.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-434588\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ethiopia-to-export-wheat-while-there-is-domestic-shortage-Fowg4A1aIAE9vyk.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A U.S. study valued Ethiopia\u2019s cannabis and hemp potential at about $10 billion\" \/>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>For Ethiopia the number fed investor talk more than immediate farm policy, but it still entered the public record of agribusiness dreams in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as agribusiness archive, the $10 billion cannabis valuation is a dated research claim from the late-2010s commodity boom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/ethiopias-cannabis-potential-valued-usd-10-billion\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s cannabis potential valued at USD 10 billion&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaThe African Regional Hemp &amp; Cannabis Report, 2019 industry outlook, a study by New Frontier Data, a Washington based research institute, indicated that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":434588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ethiopia-to-export-wheat-while-there-is-domestic-shortage-Fowg4A1aIAE9vyk.jpg?fit=1080%2C809&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a4o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754912,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277040\/revisions\/754912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}