The country secured the stated sum from export of 102,000 tons of sesame to the various countries during the first nine months of the current fiscal year, agricultural output marketing department coordinator with the ministry, Asefa Mulugeta indicated.

The coordinator made the statement recently at a workshop held in Jimma town of the Oromia State on ‘National coffee contraband and illicit trade’.

The income secured during the reported time exceeded that of the income of the previous year of the same period by 17 percent, according to the coordinator.

Oil seeds have become the second largest export items of the nation next to coffee during the last nine months, he added.

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