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Ethiopian Coffee Output Slides 58% in Two Main Growing Regions

Article By Jason McLure

Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) — Ethiopian coffee output will fall 58 percent in two of the country’s main growing regions this year because of disease and a lack of water, the government said.

Output in Sidama region fell as much as 55 percent and Gedeo by 62 percent, Berhanu Gezahegn, an official at the agriculture ministry’s coffee development office, said in an interview today in Addis Ababa. The areas in southern Ethiopia produce about 60 percent of Ethiopia’s high-quality washed coffee and are home to the Yirgacheffe and Sidama varieties sold by Starbucks Corp.

“There’s a big reduction in washed coffee,” Gezahegn said. “There was a moisture shortage in the third flowering and a big infestation of coffee berry disease and coffee wilt disease.”

Output in Sidama may fall to 15,102 metric tons, from 33,562 tons last year. Gedeo production will decline to 12,160 tons from 32,000 tons, said Gezahegn, citing figures from the agriculture department of Ethiopia’s Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s region, gathered last month. Washed coffee makes up 70 to 75 percent of the production in the two regions, while lower quality dried coffee accounts for the remainder, he said. … [Read More]

*Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&sid=auYwM6dFzZlI&refer=africa#

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