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Amhara region has introduced an initiative to construct over 800 oil retail outlets and 100 operational and medium strategic deport in the coming one year on the aim to improve the poor petroleum supply in the region.
Berhanu Taemalew, head of Trade and Market Development Bureau of Amhara, said that the existed dealers’ stations are very far from the growing demand of fuel in the region.
He said that the region had conducted a study that indicates the growing demand of petroleum in the coming five and ten year period.
Currently, the demand is growing drastically in the region in relation with the growing number of vehicles mainly three wheeler cars that expanded in to remote areas in the region. In addition the expansion of household farmers’ irrigation scheme and the increasing access of transportation on all rural areas and other reasons have contributed to the demand.