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Coffee Exports Reach New Heights

Oct 9 , 2021


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Ethiopia secured 238 million dollars in export revenues from coffee in the last two months. It portrayed a 102 million dollar increase from the amount registered during the same period last year. Over 63,000tn of the cash crop was shipped to 10 countries, with Germany, the US and Saudi Arabia buying up over half of the total. The revenue generated is nearly a quarter of the annual target set by the Coffee & Tea Authority. Last year, coffee accounted for a quarter of the country's export revenues, which were a record-high 3.6 billion dollars.


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