The South-West Ethiopia Peoples’ Region reported a supply of 43,000 MT of green coffee.
The Southern Western Ethiopia People’s Region (SWERP) is one of the newly demarcated regions in Ethiopia’s highly esteemed western coffee belt. The Dawro, Konta, Sheka, Keffa, and Bench Sheka are the region's principal coffee-growing zones and deliver export coffees such as Bench Maji, Kafa, and Geisha. The region's coffee development authority announced the supply of more than 43,000 MT of green coffee to the central market out of the planned 64,546 MT in the ended Ethiopian fiscal year. Naturals account for more than 66% of the total supplies, with 29,600 MT, while close to 13,400 MT account for washed coffees. The last two years have seen significant production growth in this area, with 2022–23 coffee supplies up by 12,800 (42.6%) compared to 30,150 MT of the 2021–22 crop. Benchi Maji coffee is the sub-region’s signature export variety, which shares sweet floral notes and crisp acidity with the neighboring Djimmah and Limmu coffees.
It is to be remembered that the Benchi Maji zone, the region's major producing area, had been warmly appreciated and awarded by the FDRE President for being recognized as the most significant coffee supplier in Ethiopia’s South West coffee belt in the 2021–22 production year. The sub-region authority added that it is undertaking the production of coffee on 585,019 hectares of land with an expected supply of 67,340 MT of coffee for the upcoming coffee year.
The ECX reported the trade of 57,000 MT of coffee.
The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) reported the trade of more than 250,000 MT of commodities worth 24 billion ETB. The trading floor announced that trade coffee only accounted for 57,000 MT (22.8%). The volume of coffee traded at ECX has seen a significant decrease following the implementation of the vertical integration scheme in 2017.
The World Coffee Conference (WCC) is a regular gathering of the various coffee stakeholders organized by the International Coffee Organization (ICO). This year’s conference will take place in Bengaluru, India, from September 25–28 at Bangalore Palace. According to the ICO, the event will focus on building a circular coffee economy, regenerative agriculture, sustainability through consumption, and access to finance while being accompanied by a coffee technology fair.
The World Coffee Conference held its inaugural event in London in 2001; since then, it has also been held in Brazil (2005), Guatemala (2010), and Ethiopia (2016).
