Dinsho (woreda)

Dinsho is one of the woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. It was part of former Sinanana Dinsho woreda what was separated for Dinsho and Sinana woredas and Robe Town. Part of the Bale Zone, Sinanana Dinsho was bordered on the south by the Mena River which separated it from Goba, on the west by Adaba, on the northwest by Agarfa, on the northeast by Gaserana Gololcha, on the east by Ginir, and on the southeast by Goro, Oromia. The administrative center of this woreda is Dinsho.

The altitude of the district varies from 2000 to 3600 meters above sea level, with higher elevation in the Dinsho subdistrict. Rivers include the Togona, Weyib and Shaya Rivers. A survey of the land in this woreda shows that 33.1% is arable or cultivable (29.8% was under annual crops), 30.4% pasture, 30.2% forest and other heavy vegetation, and the remaining 2.3% is considered swampy, mountainous or otherwise unusable. Sinanana Dinsho is one of the woredas in this Zone with abundant forests; the Bale Mountains National Park extends into the woreda. This woreda reportedly produces a surplus of food, and wheat and barley are important crops. There are two state farms in this woreda: the Sinana, with 38.38 square kilometers of area, and the Robe with 25.79 square kilometers.

Industry consists of 45 grain mills and 20 other small-scale factories including edible oil mills, woodworking and metalworking shops, bakeries, brickyards, knitting factories employing 166 people, as well as 172 wholesalers, 559 retailers and 231 service providers. There were 23 Farmers Associations with 16,399 members and 5 Farmers Service Cooperatives with 1884 members. Sinanana Dinsho has 93 kilometers of all-weather road, for an average of road density of 52.5 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers. About 37.7% of the total population has access to drinking water.

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