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Ethiopia’s earnings from coffee export registered a 13.1 per cent growth in the past seven months owing to increase in the supply of the country's major export commodity to the international market.

Ethiopia has exported more than 100 thousand tons of coffee over the past seven month, showing a 59 per cent increase in supply compared to the previous budget year, a Ministry of Trade report indicated. Add a comment Add a comment

Ethiopia is harnessing its capacity to grow competitive in the international skin and hides market by utilizing its potentials, the Ministry of Industry said. The country has earned USD 58 million in this fiscal year so far from export of hides and skin products.

Seven farmer's cooperatives from Oromia Regional State have supplied 20,000ql of durum wheat, worth 19 million birr to Dire Dawa Food Complex and Kaliti Food SC. The cooperative have been retained to supply 3000ql for the next farming season.

The wheat supplied has been grown as part of the ‘Agricultural Value Chains in Oromia’ project, under the Ethio-Italian Development Cooperation, which focuses on durum wheat and wild coffee developments in Oromia. The farmers have retained 3,000ql for the next farming season.

The Indian Trade Promotion Organization is to book one pavilion of the the Addis Abeba Exhibition Center, for the forthcoming 18th Addis Abeba Chamber of Commerce & Sectoral Association (AACCSA) International Trade Fair.

The Indian Trade Promotion Organization is still in negotiation with the AACCSA and  both parties expect to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in August, Gashaw Abate, trade investment promotion director at the AACCSA, told Fortune.

“Since the number of companies attending the exhibition from India is increasing every year, we should have separate space,” Parmod Rai Sood, manager of the Indian Trade Promotion Organization told Fortune. Add a comment Add a comment