Black pepper’s potential largely untapped in Ethiopia

Ethiopia hopes that in the near future black pepper will become a major source of hard currency in the nation’s agricultural sector. The government plans to earn half a billion USD from spices by 2025. Pepper is seen as having a lot of potentials and the government plans to cultivate the spice jointly with other crops. One advantage of black pepper is that it can be cultivated without complex technology and It can be intercropped with other plants such as coffee.