Caring for young Ethiopian coffee plants, Ethiopia, Africa
About 98% of the coffee in Ethiopia is produced by peasants on small farms that are less than a hectare, and the remain 2% is produced by the state farms. In the 1980s the Ethiopian government created the Ministry of Coffee and Tea Development , help to increase the production and to improve the cultivation and harvesting of coffee. This ten-year plan (like all other African plans) called for the increase in the size of the state farms producing coffee from 14,000 hectares to 50,000 hectares by 1994 (this plan was very unrealistic). This goal was not met, because of the strains on the government's financial resources and the consistently declining coffee prices in the world market.
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