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Origin Journey
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thiopia
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COFFEE THAT IS WORTH WAITING FOR
Ethiopian coffee is arguably the most coveted within specialty coffee. It is also one of the most complex
origins to work with due to its many distinct regions, languages, cultures, which all affect business relations. The
Ethiopian Commodities Exchange (ECX), where the majority of coffee is purchased from is in its very nature
lacking in transparency and consists of many actors and locations that each handle coffee from the time coffee
cherries are purchased and processed at washing stations, through to loaded into a container, ready for export.
It then makes sense that the export process itself is time consuming and consists of many layers. It is therefore the
purpose of this article to clarify the processes involved in preparing and exporting Ethiopian coffee.
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