Botanical evidence suggests Coffee first grew wild in Ethiopia’s fertile highlands.
LONDON Jan 16 (Reuters) – The International Coffee Organization on Monday raised its estimate of the global coffee crop in 2011/12 to 132.4 million 60 kg bags as Ethiopia overtook Colombia as the world’s number three producer.
The crop was revised up from a previous forecast of 128.6 million, largely reflecting an improved outlook in Ethiopia. It remained, however, shy of the prior season’s 134.2 million bags.
The ICO, in a monthly update, put Ethiopia’s 2011/12 crop at 9.80 million bags, up from a previous forecast of 6.35 million and the prior season’s 7.50 million.
Ethiopia prides itself as the birthplace of coffee. Some 15 million smallholder farmers grow the crop, mostly in the forested highlands in the huge country’s west and southwest.
Brazil and Vietnam are the world’s top two producers.
Colombia’s crop in 2011/12 was seen at 8.50 million bags, barely changed from the prior season’s 8.52 million. It produced around 12.5 million bags in 2007/08 before adverse weather and a tree replacement programme curbed production.
love to know and update about Addis when ever I am out side of it and visiting your website helps a lot to know what is going on in Addis.
cheers!
hope we will push it up and knock out vietnam soon, and brazil later!!!!!
This is good news for our coffee producing regions and farmers in Ethiopia. And many thanks to this site for updated information. Lets keep this rank up and work hard to take over Brazil’s position.
Thank you so much for the update. Surely, there is high room to overtake Vietnam soon and later Brazil, because we are not still producing with our optimum capacity. There is more land for expansion of coffee farm and the quality as well, but the same time the other high market oriented sub-sector, spices should also be taken in to consideration as this will again take our position up in the world.
Thank you