Ethiopia eyes exporting value added coffee to African countries

Ethiopia has more than 400 coffee exporters, 395 coffee farmers who directly export coffee, and over30 import-export companies who export coffee and import other materials like vehicles and construction materials.
Ethiopia export coffee over 60 countries and based on the coffee export data 2017/18, the principal export market for Ethiopian coffee were Germany, Saudi Arabia, United States, Belgium, Sudan, and Italy and registered a record of 917 million USD that makes Coffee the most important export for the country accounting for about 34 percent of the value of all exports.
Today, Ethiopia is the fifth-largest coffee producers next to Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia harvesting approximately 280,000 metric tons of coffee annually.
According to the Director-General, Ethiopia is still a major producing country of high-value coffee and the government is targeting African countries as alternative coffee export destinations as the price in the global market fluctuates.