Ethiopian coffee industry recieves a boost for 2014
Ethiopia is the birthplace of Coffea arabica, the ‘mountain coffee’, and is some of the best tasting commercially produced type of coffee in the world. Now, people associated with the coffee trade in the African nation will be celebrating the start of this year in style after humanitarian groups combined in order to bring funding for a new facility near the central-southern town of Yirgachefe (also transliterated as Irgachefe), securing around two-hundred jobs in the process. Ethiopian coffee group METAD will run the site after securing the investment from a project initiated by the East Coast Impact Angel Network (EIAN), and facilitated by the U.S Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Agricultural Growth Program which aims to secure and develop industrial growth in hard-to-reach areas where food and medical supplies are limited. Out of the jobs created, seventy percent will go to women whilst the benefits of this project will spread to around four-hundred local co