Ethiopia has the largest livestock population of any African country. Livestock is produced in both the highly productive, high rainfall highlands areas and vast lowland areas of the country. As a result between from a base of $18.5 million in meat export in 2005/06, the country reached $78.36 million in meat export in 2019. So far the country is exporting meat to the Gulf Region majorly to the United Arab Emirates which accounts for more than 60% of all meat export and seconded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (37 %) and the rest to Qatar, Oman, Vietnam, and few African countries.