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Coffee, Khat Biggest Forex Earners
published 28 days, 19 hours, 31 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 28 days, 19 hours, 32 minutes ago
Friday, August 06, 2010 4:40:33 AM GMT Friday, August 06, 2010 4:39:53 AM GMT
Coffee and khat exports earned Ethiopia close to 737 million dollars, which was 36.9pc of the total foreign exchange of two billion dollars that the country earned in the 2009/10 fiscal year with 36.5pc, 729.1 million dollars, coming from China. (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: www.addisfortune.com tags: Coffee, economy, ethiopia, khat

$12 Cup Ethiopian Coffee Raising Eyebrows
published 121 days, 18 hours, 42 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 121 days, 18 hours, 50 minutes ago
Wednesday, May 05, 2010 5:29:18 AM GMT Wednesday, May 05, 2010 5:22:08 AM GMT
Café Grumpy, a local coffee shop chain here in New York, is raising eyebrows with its new menu item - an expensive cup of joe from Ethiopia. (more)
Digg It category: Business | comment | | source: www.tadias.com tags: business, Coffee

Japan close to resuming imports of Ethiopian coffee
published 199 days, 21 hours, 59 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 199 days, 22 hours, 1 minute ago
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:12:40 AM GMT Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:10:22 AM GMT
ETHIOPIA, whose coffee exports hit a seven-year low in the month to July 2009 at 133,993 tonnes, appears set to resume exports to Japan, which used to buy 20% of the eastern African nation's coffee but suspended purchases in 2008 due to concerns over the high levels of chemical residues. (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: www.agra-net.com tags: Coffee, Ethiopia export, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news

Ethiopian coffee ceremony at Northwest African American Museum
published 215 days, 21 hours, 29 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 215 days, 21 hours, 44 minutes ago
Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:42:50 AM GMT Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:27:35 AM GMT
Ethiopia is considered the birthplace of coffee. Legend has it that a goat herder named Kaldi noticed his goats behaving strangely after eating coffee berries. So he tried them, and danced with elation. When he took the beans to a monk, the monk became afraid and threw them in a fire, which sent [...] (more)
Digg It category: Fun | comment | | source: ecadforum.com tags: Coffee, economy, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news

New Coffee Shop to Open in Anacostia
published 233 days, 20 hours, 32 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 233 days, 20 hours, 45 minutes ago
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 3:40:11 AM GMT Wednesday, January 13, 2010 3:27:12 AM GMT
FOX: During the biggest recession since the Great Depression, a local Ethiopian family is bucking the trend. They are poised… to open a new coffee shop. And they’re choosing to do it in the poorest neighborhood in Washington, D.C.: Anacostia. (more)
Digg It category: Business | comment | | source: www.tadias.com tags: business, Coffee, ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news

Ethiopian Commodity Exchange Traded Over 4.2 Billion Birr In 2009
published 236 days, 20 hours, 31 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 236 days, 20 hours, 47 minutes ago
Sunday, January 10, 2010 3:40:43 AM GMT Sunday, January 10, 2010 3:24:37 AM GMT
The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) traded about 170,000 tonnes of coffee valued over 4.2 billion birr in 2009, said Eleni Z. G.Medhine, CEO of ECX. (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: www.ezega.com tags: Coffee, economy, ECX, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news

በአንድ ዓመት ጊዜ የኢትዮጵያ ምርት ገበያ የ4.2 ቢሊዮን ብር የቡና ግብይት ማከናወኑ ተገለጸ
published 237 days, 17 hours, 49 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 237 days, 18 hours, 26 minutes ago
Saturday, January 09, 2010 6:22:27 AM GMT Saturday, January 09, 2010 5:45:18 AM GMT
የኢትዮጵያ የምርት ገበያ የቡናን ግብይት በጀመረበት በአንድ ዓመት ጊዜ ውስጥ ከ170 ሺህ ቶን በላይ የሚሆን የ4.2 ቢሊዮን ብር ቡና በተሳካ ሁኔታ ማሻሻጥ መቻሉን የምርት ገበያው ዋና አስተዳዳሪ ዶክተር እሌኒ ዘውዴ ገ/መድህን ለሪፖርተር ገለፁ፡፡ (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: www.ethiopianreporter.com tags: Coffee, economy, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news

Guna, Owned by Ethiopian Ruling Party, Eyes Coffee-Export Share
published 305 days, 19 hours, 45 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 305 days, 19 hours, 45 minutes ago
Monday, November 02, 2009 4:26:56 AM GMT Monday, November 02, 2009 4:26:15 AM GMT
Who is getting the coffee now, Dr. Eleni? Your poor farmer or the monster in power? Guna Trading House Plc, owned by Ethiopia�s ruling party, said it plans to become one of the nation�s biggest coffee exporters, raising concern among industry observers that private industry may get crowded out. (more)
Digg It category: Business | comment | | source: ethiomedia.com tags: Coffee, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news

Oromo Coffee Company
published 332 days, 5 hours, 25 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 332 days, 5 hours, 29 minutes ago
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 6:46:28 PM GMT Tuesday, October 06, 2009 6:42:36 PM GMT
The Oromo Coffee Company is a Fairtrade Foundation-certified social enterprise, set up by refugees in the UK to sell high-quality coffee imported from their Ethiopian homeland. (more)
Digg It category: Business | comment | | source: www.thirdsector.co.uk tags: Coffee, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news, Oromo

Ethiopia heading for coffee monopoly
published 335 days, 18 hours, 8 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 339 days, 18 hours, 20 minutes ago
Saturday, October 03, 2009 6:03:56 AM GMT Tuesday, September 29, 2009 5:51:34 AM GMT
Eleni - Losing her credibility very fast The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) has in the past been accused by private coffee traders of being a catalyst for the government's morbid desire to bring the lucrative coffee sector under its control. The government is taking its coffee trading sectors even to remote areas.Now a government official warns that anyone acting out of the coffee... (more)
Digg It category: Business | comment | | source: ethiomedia.com tags: Coffee, ECX, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian Commodity Exchange, Ethiopian news