Ethiopia eyes exporting value added coffee to African countries

Ethiopia’s value-added coffee export is less than two percent of the total coffee export volume and almost all the export goes outside Africa. The increasing trend in coffee consumption in African countries and opening opportunities to trade within African countries will benefit coffee growing farmers and stabilize coffee prices in the region. In order to tap into the opening opportunities, Ethiopia is revising and improving laws enabling it to export value-added coffee to nearby African countries. The country 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.