What is the income of coffee farmers in Ethiopia? is Kenya produced in Ethiopia?

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Coffee is becoming more and more expensive, while coffee farmers are getting poorer, causing coffee growers around the world to roar, warning that Western coffee producers may trigger a new wave of "social disasters" if they do not help them improve their incomes.

Gafeto Gardo, who has run coffee farms here for generations in Ethiopia's lush southern highlands, is wondering whether to end coffee farming.

The price of coffee beans plummeted.

Over the past year, the price of coffee beans produced by Gofeito has fallen 1/3 per kilogram to just 29 cents. In Western countries, a cappuccino can sell for $3 to $4. Coffee farmers have long suffered from being on the wrong side of the value chain. They usually earn only a fraction of the retail price of coffee.

Now, as global coffee bean prices have plummeted to a nearly 13-year low, some coffee farmers in Central America, Colombia and Ethiopia have begun to question whether they are still worth the hard work.

Desalegan Demissie, head of the joint development office at Shebedino, said growing coffee was "originally a labour-intensive and expensive industry", but now the sharp drop in the price of coffee beans has made him worry about whether it will trigger a wave of abandonment of coffee farmland.

Ironically, at the other end of the value chain, coffee has become an unprecedented popular drink. Western millennials grew up drinking Starbucks coffee from an early age, which also led to the rise of coffee shops in Europe and the United States one after another, and creative coffee specializing in high-end routes was born accordingly.

Due to the amazing business opportunities in the coffee market, the industry has also set off a new wave of mergers and acquisitions, such as Nestl é's global marketing rights for Starbucks products outside Starbucks coffee shops; JAB Holdings spent a lot of money to buy Green Mountain, and Coca-Cola spent a lot of money to acquire coffee chain Costa, hoping to expand in the coffee market.

But for coffee farmers who are struggling for a living, their future is in gloom. This has also prompted coffee farmers around the world to come forward and ask Western coffee makers to help them raise their incomes, otherwise they will trigger a new social disaster crisis.

The coffee industry also responded kindly to the letter. Starbucks has pledged $20 million to help minority shareholders trade with Central America until the price of coffee beans returns above the cost of production.

Starbucks, which buys about 3% of the world's coffee, said, "this is a first step for us to know that we have to do something that meets the most urgent needs of these countries in the near future." "

The recent collapse in global coffee bean prices is mainly due to a bumper harvest in Brazilian coffee fields. The country is the world's largest coffee producer, and its bumper harvest led to a low price of Arabica coffee beans on the ICE Futures Exchange in New York and the United States.

On September 18, 2018, for example, the price of Arabica coffee beans fell from $2.09 per kilogram to just 95.10 cents per kilogram, the lowest since October 2005, and less than 1/3 compared with the 2011 high. Coffee bean prices are still hovering near lows and there is still no sign of a sharp rebound.

Kenya is located in eastern Africa, the equator runs through the central part, and the Great Rift Valley of East Africa runs through the north and south. The eastern coast is about 500m above sea level, and the western plateau is the eastern part of the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, with an elevation of 2000-3000 m. From east to west, the altitude changes from low to high. The coast is the plain and the west is the plateau. The climate is located in the tropical monsoon area, dominated by the savanna climate. The coffee producing areas in Kenya are mainly concentrated in the plateau areas represented by Mount Mt.Kenya. Tropical monsoon climate and acid red volcanic soil provide a natural and suitable growth environment for coffee.