A study case on coffee (Coffea arabica): Limu Coffe - IRD

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Illustration 51: Monthly average prices and quantities of WLMA, WLMB and UJMA (data: ECX,
prod: Bossolasco, 2009)
6.3.3) Limu coffee prices and producers
Price variations at national levels
Prices internationally, nationally then consequently locally vary: During third week of
August 2009, dried coffee 96
was sold 24 birr/kg in Genet groceries and 30 birr/kg next week
(1 euro = 18 birr at this time). This because of world market evolutions, and as told me an
Ambuye grocer, because of local coffee stocks decrease from July to September: “Coffee
quantity and therefore availability decreases in the woreda three months before next harvest,
and prices increase”.
96 Domestic consumption coffee is exclusively sun dried coffee. Washed coffee, too expensive and not
assimilated in local drinking customs, is only addressed to export, or central market. Locally, there is no quality
control for this sun dried coffee. The client is just visually estimating the coffee he buys (Genet akhrabie, 26 th
August 2009).
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