Month: July 2022

Ethiopian law prohibits the sale of export-quality coffee locally. Despite this, the country – regarded as the birthplace of coffee according to the legend of ‘Kaldi and the Dancing goats’ – hasn’t been able to control these sales. The illegal trade has grown into an organised criminal enterprise. Ethiopia is Africa’s largest coffee exporter and the fifth …

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ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia’s coffee export to China saw a 196 percent growth in volume, a Chinese official says. The amount puts Beijing as top ten buyers of Ethiopian Coffee trade along with Germany, the U.S., Belgium, Saudi Arabia, Japan, China, South Korea, Italy, and France. Between Jan and November 2021 alone, “China’s import of …

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ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopian officials and exporters held discussion with Chinese coffee traders on the possibilities of creating more market link between Ethiopian coffee Exporters and Chinese Importers. The Ethiopian Embassy in Beijing hosted a virtual forum under the motto, “Coffee from the Land of Origins” on Friday. It was aimed at promoting Ethiopian coffee …

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Ethiopia is one of the countries where a wide variety of traditional fermented beverages are prepared and consumed. Cheka is one of the indigenously fermented alcoholic beverages that is extensively consumed and valued by consumers in urban and rural areas of the Konso Zone in southwestern Ethiopia. This study is aimed to determine the proximal …

Did you know Cheka is a traditional low alcoholic fermented beverage commonly consumed in the southwestern parts of Ethiopia? Read More »

Ethiopia has launched a comprehensive Coffee Development Strategy that aims to quadruple its annual coffee revenue and increase farmer incomes more than five-fold by 2033. Coffee already represents a vital part of Ethiopia’s economy, supporting the livelihoods of more than a quarter of the population and generating up to 30% of the country’s foreign exchange …

Authority Launches Strategy that aims to Quadruple Ethiopia’s Coffee Revenue Read More »

ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia has secured close to 1.2 billion U.S. dollars from coffee export in the last eleven months, an official from Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority says. The figure is the highest revenue in Ethiopia’s Coffee export history, breaking the previous annual earning record registered just last year. The nation obtained $906m from 248, 000tn …

Ethiopia Secures Nearly $1.2 Billion from 11-Month Coffee Export Read More »

Making great coffee might be an art, but in the end, it all comes down to science. If you want to get the best from your coffee, you need to consider exactly what goes into it, and most of that is water. But what makes water good or bad for brewing? Here’s what you need …

Coffee And Water: The Importance of high quality water in brewing. Read More »

In today’s specialty coffee market, buyers look for coffees that have exotic flavour profiles and high cupping scores. This has motivated coffee producers to innovate in production and processing where possible. One such example is when producers experiment with processing by fermenting their coffee cherries with other fruits. To learn more about how they do …

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