A landslide occurred in the southern part of Ethiopia's Tima coffee producing area!

At least six people have been killed in a landslide in Ameya district in the Konta zone district of southwestern Ethiopia, Ethiopian media reported.

According to the district police committee, it rained heavily the night before the accident, and the next morning there was a landslide. The victims of the accident came from two local families, one of which lost four family members, while the other lost two family members.

So far, five bodies have been found and rescuers are conducting search and rescue operations to find the missing bodies, but the police did not say whether there are any more missing persons. In addition, the police also reported another landslide in the Adiyo district, also in Kangta district. However, the number of people affected has not yet been determined because the search operation has been interrupted by heavy rain.

The head of the police committee in the area said that due to heavy rain, there is still a potential risk of landslides in the area, accompanied by thick fog, which makes the search work difficult and can only be carried out carefully to prevent the accident from happening again.

It is reported that since the beginning of this year, many landslides have occurred near the area, especially in mid-late July this year, two landslides occurred successively in the Gofa Zone District. After the first landslide occurred, the second landslide occurred during the search and rescue period, resulting in heavy casualties and property losses. According to statistics, between July and September, landslides killed about 300 people.

Its geological experts said that because the region suffered heavy rainfall from April to May this year, causing floods, and the heavy rain season in Ethiopia from June to October, the land in the region is very loose and soil erosion. It's very accident-prone.

The Konta zone region of the accident is located in south-central Ethiopia and around coffee producing areas such as Djimmah and kaffa. It is a commercial bean producing area for Ethiopian bulk coffee.

From October to March, it is the harvest season in Ethiopia, but the recent heavy rain will delay the harvest of some coffee. In addition, floods and landslides will directly damage the coffee growing environment and part of the infrastructure, resulting in a reduction in coffee production. And landslides may cause damage to roads and infrastructure, affecting the transport of coffee from the country's origin to the country's capital and ports, affecting the transport of goods.

At present, the situation of the coffee industry in Ethiopia is not optimistic. The biggest problems are regional security and rising local prices. There has been a continuous outbreak of war in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia, and armed conflicts have occurred from time to time in the Oromia region near the capital, affecting regional security and the country's economic development.

In addition, Ethiopia has implemented a major revision of the foreign exchange system since July, which has led to a sharp fall in the exchange rate of the Ethiopian currency, the Bill, which has pushed up local prices in Ethiopia. In addition, according to the prediction of the World Bank, the escalation of conflicts in the Middle East will lead to a drop and increase in global fertilizer costs, which is very disadvantageous to Ethiopia, which relies on chemical fertilizer imports, coupled with the Red Sea crisis, rising shipping prices, the reduction of ships at the port of Djibouti and other conditions have exacerbated the rise in the price of some imports in Ethiopia and increased planting costs.

In addition, there is also concern about the arrival of La Nina, Ethiopia will enter the dry season after November, La Nina phenomenon may increase the risk of drought, affect the harvest of Ethiopian coffee production season, resulting in an eventual reduction in production. However, recently, with the resumption of rainfall in coffee-producing areas in Brazil and the delay of EUDR in the European Union, coffee prices have fallen sharply, and Ethiopian coffee has also been affected. According to the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Administration, the minimum export price of coffee has also been reduced by 0.5%, which is beneficial to its coffee exports.

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