{"id":199934,"date":"2025-06-11T07:30:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-ethiopia-becomes-africas-top-wheat-producer-surpasses-egypt-threefold-pm-abiy-declares\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:30:57","slug":"africa-ethiopia-becomes-africas-top-wheat-producer-surpasses-egypt-threefold-pm-abiy-declares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-ethiopia-becomes-africas-top-wheat-producer-surpasses-egypt-threefold-pm-abiy-declares\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Ethiopia Becomes Africa&#8217;s Top Wheat Producer, Surpasses Egypt Threefold, PM Abiy Declares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Addis Ababa, \u2014 Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared that Ethiopia has overtaken the status of the largest wheat-producing country in Africa, tripling Egypt&#8217;s output.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">In a wide-ranging interview with the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), the Prime Minister stated that Ethiopia is producing wheat at an extremely large scale that underscores the government&#8217;s focus on enhancing food security and self-sufficiency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Currently, Ethiopia has made wheat production a central pillar in its journey&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506090165.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa, \u2014 Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared that Ethiopia has overtaken the status of the largest wheat-producing country in Africa, tripling Egypt&#8217;s output. In a wide-ranging interview with the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), the Prime Minister stated that Ethiopia is producing wheat at an extremely large scale that underscores the government&#8217;s focus on enhancing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":199935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[20888,258,256,6287,7030,4697,415,4716,257,23900,254,20013,51593,7319,9904],"class_list":["post-199934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-abiy","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-declares","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-news","tag-producer","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surpasses","tag-threefold","tag-top","tag-wheat"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}