{"id":248143,"date":"2018-11-03T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=4359b04d9f7cff8bb809ed2c785c1ebf"},"modified":"2019-02-09T04:14:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T09:14:21","slug":"ethiopian-coffee-producers-and-exporters-target-the-chinese-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/248143","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian coffee producers and exporters target the Chinese market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Xinhua) &#8211; Ethiopian coffee producers and exporters have expressed interest in entering China&#8217;s vast coffee market, while demand for coffee has recently increased in China.<\/p>\n<p>With the growing demand for coffee from young Chinese people, progress in the emerging Chinese market has become a major priority for Ethiopian producers and exporters.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-248297\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Chinese-coffee-market-growth.jpg?resize=368%2C251&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"251\" \/>Alfoz Plc, one of Ethiopia&#8217;s leading specialty coffee harvesting, processing and exporting companies, is one of the companies that wants to strengthen its presence in China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While Chinese consumers&#8217; interest in coffee in general and Ethiopian coffee, in particular, has increased in recent years, we are currently looking for opportunities to better penetrate the Chinese market,&#8221; said Yohanis Addis, director of sales and marketing. marketing of Alfoz Plc, during a recent interview with Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming China International Import Exhibition (CIIE), scheduled for November 5-10 in Shanghai, &#8220;is the perfect event for us to interact successfully with our potential Chinese colleagues and resellers&#8221;, he stressed, in order to collaborate &#8220;in order to effectively penetrate the vast Chinese market&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>China has already become one of Ethiopia&#8217;s top export destinations. During the 2017-2018 fiscal period that ended on July 8, the African country exported $ 245 million worth of goods to China, according to the Ethiopian Ministry of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p>Wondimu Filate, director of public relations and communication at the ministry, recently confirmed to Xinhua that Ethiopia&#8217;s exports to China have steadily increased through bilateral and multilateral relations and the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (ASCF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Xinhua) &#8211; Ethiopian coffee producers and exporters have expressed interest in entering China&#8217;s vast coffee market, while demand for coffee has recently increased in China. With the growing demand for coffee from young Chinese people, progress in the emerging Chinese market has become a major priority for Ethiopian producers and exporters. Alfoz Plc, one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Chinese-coffee-market.jpg?fit=679%2C381&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-12yj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248299,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248143\/revisions\/248299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}