Gulfood Food Fair is a fair organized by the Dubai World Trade Center (DWTC) every year and only for food professionals. The fair, where professionals operating in the food industry participated as exhibitors and visitors, could not live its former liveliness by remaining in the shadow of the pandemic this year. 27th Edition of Gulfood to …
In this Yirgacheffe coffee review guide, we will be giving you a flow of information about every single aspect and overall facts about Yirgacheffe. You may already have heard of Yirgacheffe coffee, which is part of Ethiopian coffee types. It is known for its floral citrusy characteristics that are difficult to find in any other …
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Tamiru Tadesse is Founder and Manager of Halloo Coffee PLC and Tamiru Tadesse PLC. The latter is an enterprise that collects coffee from over 300 small-scale farmers to supply to the former. Born in Bensa, Sidama Region, he studied electrical engineering at Hawassa University and taught at Debre Berhan University for two years before being …
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Coffee ceremony is tradition in Ethiopia, which claims to be the birth place of coffee. Like tea in Japan and in many Arab countries, coffee has its own ceremony in Ethiopia. Coffee known as Bunna in Amharic language, has a significant place in Ethiopian history. It starts by washing the bean and roasting it on …
Following the success of the first Green Coffee Summit event in 2021, the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) has announced the second event, continuing the programming and content focused on the buying and selling of green coffee. This free-to-attend event will be delivered virtually with two days of presentations, lectures, and panel discussions on 18 and …
Most people reading the news over the past two-plus years now know more about disease variants and transmission than they ever may have wished. Yet new discoveries came to light just this spring in research conducted on the genetic nature of the disease that has beleaguered coffee producers for more than a century: coffee leaf rust, or …
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Coffee traders can now send all grades of coffee beans to the global market, in contrast to the previous law that allowed them only to export the top four grades of coffee, according to a new directive issued by the Ethiopian Coffee & Tea Authority. Farmers and exporters can also directly ship the beans without …
Researchers from the University of Queensland, Australia have discovered through genetic analysis that coffee consumption may not affect pregnancy after all. Pregnant women can put their mind at ease with researchers at the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia finding that enjoying a daily latte or long black while pregnant causes no increased risk to …
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Coffee is good for you. Or it’s not. Maybe it is, then it isn’t, then it is again. If you drink coffee, and follow the news, then perhaps you’ve noticed this pattern. A recent study showed that coffee, even sweetened, was associated with health benefits. But other studies have come to more mixed conclusions. What’s driving these …
Working in coffee’s genetic birthplace, a group of researchers in Ethiopia recently explored a question that’s confounded the coffee industry since the dawn of commercial cultivation: What factors most impact coffee quality? What they found was that coffees picked most consistently at peak ripeness that were kept within specific moisture content ranges throughout their processing journey …
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illu Import & Export is an Exporter of Ethiopian Coffee and many other products. We are engaged in global businesses. Our company has been in existence since 1984.
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