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Castel planting in Ethiopia

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June 3, 2008 in Africa.

Earlier this month Castel, France’s largest wine producer, become the first French company to start large scale vineyard plantations in Ethiopia, investing about $9m (€5.7m) in the Castel Wynerie Private Limited Company, 200 kilometres south of the capital, Addis Ababa. “We started planting on May 10th and all the 125 hectares should all be done before September,” said Castel’s communications director, Franck Crouzet.

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