Ethiopia generated 3 billion US dollars from coffee exports during the 2025/26 fiscal year, which concludes on July 7, 2026, according to an announcement made over the week-end in Addis Ababa.
Minister of Agriculture Addisu Arega stated that coffee exports account for more than 30 percent of Ethiopia’s total export revenue, underscoring the commodity’s central role in the national economy. In the previous 2024/25 fiscal year, Ethiopia recorded over 2.65 billion US dollars from the export of approximately 470,000 tonnes of coffee, as reported by the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority.
Government and sector stakeholders have now endorsed a new five-year coffee development strategy aimed at significantly increasing productivity and export earnings. The plan seeks to raise coffee yield from about 900 kg per hectare to 2,100 kg by 2031.
Officials project that, with improved production and sector reforms, annual coffee export revenue could reach 6 billion US dollars within the next five years.
Ethiopia, widely recognised as the birthplace of Arabica coffee, continues to rely heavily on the crop, which supports more than 6 million smallholder farmers and remains a cornerstone of its agricultural economy and global trade positioning.