Japan and Italy lead in consuming Tanzania's coffee

Dodoma — JAPAN, Italy and Germany are the leading consumers of Tanzanian coffee, it has been revealed. Revealing this was the Director General of Tanzania Coffee Board (TCB), Mr Primus Kimaryo when addressing the 13th National Coffee Stakeholders Meeting held at St Gasper Hotel &Conference Centre in Dodoma mid this week. Revealing who buys the country's coffee abroad, he named Japan which consume a total of 29 per cent of all coffee exports, Italy 13 per cent, Germany 13 per cent, Belgium eight per cent, United States of America five per cent and Morocco five per cent. South Africa had three per cent, Sweden two per cent, Russia two per cent, Spain two per cent, Israel two per cent, Finland one per cent, Australia one per cent while other countries imported the remaining 12 per cent of the country's coffee. On the state of local consumption of coffee he named it to be five to seven of the total production, adding that efforts are underway for the same to reach 15 per cent after 10 ...