- Ginir (woreda)
Ginir is one of the 180
woreda s in theOromia Region ofEthiopia . It is named after the administrative center of the woreda,Ginir .Part of the
Bale Zone , Ginir is bordered on the south by theGestro River which separates it from Goro, on the west bySinanana Dinsho , on the northwest byGaserana Gololcha , on the northeast bySeweyna , and on the east byRaytu . Towns includeDelo Serbo .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. [ [http://oromiagov.org/Socio%20Economic%20Profile/Bale/Bale%20Zone.pdf "Socio-economic profile of the Bale Zone"] Government of Oromia Region (last accessed 1 August 2006).]Coffee is also an important cash crop; between 2,000 and 5,000 hectares are planted with it. [ [http://www.oromiacoffeeunion.org/production.htm "Coffee Production"] Oromia Coffee Cooperative Union website]Industry in the woreda includes 29
grain mill s and one brick factory employing 61 people, as well as 25 wholesalers, 165 retailers and 66 service providers. There were 28 Farmers Associations and 9 Farmers Service Cooperatives. Ginir has 77 kilometers of dry-weather and 101 all-weather road, for an average of road density of 75.7 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers. About 35.6% of the total population has access todrinking water . [Government of Oromia Region, "Socio-economic profile."]Based on figures published by the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this woreda has an estimated total population of 140,498, of whom 70,558 were males and 69,940 were females; 26,820 or 19.09% of its population are urban dwellers, which is greater than the Zone average of 13.5%. With an estimated area of 2,350.63 square kilometers, Ginir has an estimated population density of 59.8 people per square kilometer, which is greater than the Zone average of 27. [ [http://www.csa.gov.et/text_files/2005_national_statistics.htm CSA 2005 National Statistics] , Tables B.3 and B.4]
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