Operating in two large scale fields in South Ethiopia Regional Sate, Lucy Farm keeps diversifying its market and horticultural production while focusing on modernizing its agricultural practices with precision farming.

With 3,500 hectares in Omorate, Dasenech District and 1,535 hectares of field in Sille, Arba Minch Zuria District, Lucy grows various horticultural crops including among others, banana, orange, mango, avocado, and different varieties of vegetables for both local and export markets.

As part of two recent events: a joint field mission of EHPEA & GIZ aimed at exploring ways of strengthening sustainable horticultural value chains of fruits and vegetables, and secondly in connection with the horticulture subsector stakeholders meeting in Arba Minch, the Ethiopian Horticulture Producer Exporters Association (EHPEA) facilitated field visits to some member farms in the South Ethiopia Regional State, including Lucy Farm.    

With close to five hundred permanent employees, Lucy creates seasonal employments for local people ranging between 2,500 and 3,000, while generating strategic social and economic opportunities for local communities through outgrowing schemes, training, and market linkage among other social and environmental interventions, whereby it contributed 6 million Ethiopian Birr in the year 2025/26 only for different social development programs.

During the visit to Lucy Farm in Sille, participants learned that the Farm is in final stage of preparation to commence operation of a newly constructed propagation facility for varied types of demand-driven vegetables to be supplied to local smallholder growers.

“We follow sustainable farming with organic production process and have established an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) system,” says Mekonnen Zeage, Deputy Manager of Lucy Agricultural Development Plc., indicating that Lucy is now focusing on market and product diversification as well as on precision farming.