African coffee finds growing market in China

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Africa’s coffee exports to China are rapidly increasing as demand for specialty coffee grows across Chinese cities. At the 22nd African Fine Coffees Conference in Addis Ababa, industry players discussed quality, sustainability, and new trade partnerships, as countries like Ethiopia and Uganda expand their presence in the Chinese market.

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00:00Thank you very much.

00:54Last year we have like more than 400 containers from Ethiopia coffee to the

00:59China to support the market in China because everyone knows that the China

01:04coffee industry is a bomb there and more and more clients they will pick

01:09Ethiopia coffee in their SOE in their recipe in their like signature drink so

01:16more and more people love to fall in love with the Ethiopia coffee

01:32The Chinese market is extremely important for Uganda and actually we are very

01:37excited to have our friends from China they are now taking our coffee I can tell

01:43you that coffee exports to China have increased by 270 percent in the past two

01:51years so Uganda has grown as a very big exporter of coffee to China and we want

02:00this market to grow even further and we government support is there for them so

02:06this is one of our key destinations in the factory we have our office in China it's

02:40promoting coffee

02:41far from Copenhagen

02:45Let me use them more time

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