coffee production

ETHIOPIAN SPECIALTY COFFEE - AN ANALYSIS

S .NO HEADING PAGE NO

1 INTRODUCTION 3

2 ANALYSIS 3

3 CONCLUSION 10

4 WORKS CITED 11 1 . INTRODUCTION

Ethiopia is located on the Horn of Africa , which is in the eastern Africa . It covers an area of 472 ,400 square miles and its capital is Addis Ababa . Djibouti and Somalia is forming the eastern bs , the Sudan b is on he west and Kenya bs it on south . On the northeastern side , it has Red Sea coastline . Further , Ethiopia owns and

controls about 151 red sea islands . Ethiopia 's population is around 65 million which ranks second to Nigeria

Being one of the poorest countries , Ethiopian economy is an agrarian Coffee is regarded as vital to the Ethiopian economy .Agricultural is not only accounts about 50 of the gross domestic product but also comprises about 91 of its exports and also offers employment to about 81 of its population . As per statistics available at the beginning of the year 2006 , coffee shares about 55 of the gross national product of Ethiopia which was estimated at 11 .3 billion . Further , about 91 of the are about 15 .5 million people who are actively engaged in the coffee market

2 . ANALYSIS

Coffee is cultivated on an extensive commercial scale throughout both West and East Africa .The Economist 2002 outlines that Cote d 'Ivoire was the world 's sixth biggest coffee producer [328 ,300 tons] in the year 2002 , with Ethiopia and Uganda at ninth and tenth places respectively with harvest of 210 ,000 and 186 ,000tons

Ethiopia 's agrarian economy is pestilenced by frequent soil degradation due to excessive grazing , drought , high density of population , pitiable infrastructure and deforestation which makes it costly to deliver goods to market . The climatic condition of Ethiopia is very conducive for the coffee cultivation . It has suitable altitude , plenty of rainfall optimal temperature , necessary planting tools and lush soil . It has the intrinsic quality for production prospective and it is the birth place of coffee Arabica . The estimated around 200 ,100 tones from the plantation that spreads across around 400 ,100 hectares

In the rocky mountains of Ethiopia , the globe 's finest-tasting coffee beans are cultivated . Coffee is extensively cultivated on the west of the Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia as it preferably outfitted for cultivating Arabica coffee as the coffee farmers is in no need to use insecticides or fertilizers

Coffee has been produced in Ethiopia for over 2000 years . It is christened after the Kaffa region of Ethiopia where the coffee plant is regarded to have derived . Coffee is being grown as commodity crop for the last 500 years in Ethiopia and first export of coffee was recorded in 1938 . At the start of 19th century , two coffee varieties were exported to Marseilles , Trieste , New York and London . As of today Ethiopia grades as Africa 's third largest exporter after Cote d 'Ivoire and Uganda

The specialty nature of Ethiopian coffee is due to the following factors...