Ginir (woreda)
Ginir is one of the
.Overview
About 15% of the area of this woreda is covered with valley, gorges and hills. Rivers include the Dinkit, Gololcha and Tebel Rivers. A survey of the land in this woreda shows that 30.5% is arable or cultivable, 31.2% pasture, 35.6% forest, and the remaining 2.7% is considered swampy, mountainous or otherwise unusable. Khat, fruits and vegetables are important cash crops.[1] Coffee is also an important cash crop; between 2,000 and 5,000 hectares are planted with it.[2]
Industry in the woreda includes 29
Demographics
The 2007 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 139,495, of whom 71,323 were men and 68,172 were women; 20,196 or 14.48% of its population were urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants said they were
Based on figures published by the
The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 97,739, of whom 48,696 were men and 49,043 women; 15,000 or 15.35% of its population were urban dwellers at the time. The three largest ethnic groups reported in Ginir were the
Notes
- ^ a b Socio-economic profile of the Bale Zone Government of Oromia Region (last accessed 1 August 2006).
- ^ "Coffee Production" Oromia Coffee Cooperative Union website
- ^ 2007 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Oromia Region, Vol. 1 Archived November 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Tables 2.1, 2.5, 3.4 (accessed 13 January 2012)
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics Archived November 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, Tables B.3 and B.4
- ^ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Oromia Region, Vol. 1, part 1 Archived November 15, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Tables 2.1, 2.13, 2.16, 2.20 (accessed 6 April 2009).
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