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Article 8 — Agricultural and Forestry Undertakings
New Ethiopian Commercial Code Proclamation No. 1243 2021 English Version
Article text
1/ Subject to the provisions under Sub-Articles
(4) and
(5) of Article 5 Persons, who carry on activities relating to agriculture, forestry, plant nursery, cattle breeding or maintaining pasture land, shall not be deemed to be traders where they sell the products of the land they exploit or use, or animals or the products of animals bred mainly from the resources of the land which the said persons exploit or use or crops and processed animal products produced from the same land.
2/ Subject to Sub-Article
(1) of this Article persons shall not be deemed to be traders whether the exploitation is individual or collective, such as an agricultural community or cooperatives.