Coffee production and Value chain in Ethiopia

Coffee is vital to the cultural and socio-economic life of Ethiopians. Smallholder farmers on less than two hectares of land produces and supply Ninety-five percent of Ethiopia’s coffee produces. However Ethiopia’s farmers obtain a smaller share of export prices compared to most other countries. Hence a little information has been gathered on different aspects of the coffee with the objectives of reviewing constraint and opportunity of coffee production and Value chain and marketing actors and margin distribution of coffee in Ethiopia. Data from CSA and different published materials on coffee were used. According to the review diseases at producer level shortage of coffee supply lack of processing machine adulteration at trader level insufficient production at export level lack of infrastructure and inadequate access to services (particularly financial services risk management etc.) low value addition and inadequate technology transfer & research (conservation biodiversity etc).