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Review on Coffee Production Constraints and Opportunities in Ethiopia

Ewentu Motebayenore

Coffee is the fore most important food commodity world- wide including Ethiopia and ranks second, after crude oil among all commodities. It is additionally one of the most profoundly important cash crops in Ethiopia. However, Ethiopia till today has not yet fully exploited the potential of this crop as the producer and birth place of coffee. This is mainly due to different factors. Hence, important data has been gathered on different aspects of the coffee with the objectives of reviewing coffee production constraint’s and opportunities in Ethiopia. Diverse information from GAIN, FAOSTAT, CSA and distributed materials on coffee were utilized. According to the review, lack of competitiveness, lack of infrastructure, little market promotion and incentive mechanism, in adequate access to services, low value addition, in adequate technology transfer and research, ineffective and wasteful approach systems, expansion of khat farming, precipitation variability, price flucation, little market promotion and incentive mechanism are among major constraints of coffee production in Ethiopia. Immense opportunities for the production of coffee were identified such as, the presence of all-weather road, convenient topography, fertile land, good climatic conditions, good government policy, support from agricultural office, irrigation access, presence of market access, presence of NGOs for support, sufficient labor and year round rainfall were mentioned as some of opportunities that can be used for further improvement of production and productivity of coffee Ethiopia. Therefore, enhancing infrastructural and institutional facilities enhance extension service, improving coffee production technologies through development, licensing of more traders and inspecting their activities, providing improved coffee varieties and other related agronomic practices were among the major recommendations forwarded from the review. Consequently, it is better to improve coffee production and productivity trends by solving the constraints and using possible opportunities as a country in order to bring important changes in this sub sector.