About 90 percent of the population earn a living from the land, mainly as subsistence farmers. Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy. Ethiopia exports coffee, oil seed, pulses, flowers, vegetables, sugar and animal feed. The livestock sector exports cattle and hides. The three top import sources to Ethiopia are China, Saudi Arabia and India. Ethiopia’s main export destinations are Germany, China and Somalia. The economy is weak and unstable and there is growing urban unemployment. Many struggling rural parents keep their children home from school to work on the land. DRE insists its sponsored children attend school to receive funding.