RWANDA
Rwanda’s coffee export revenues are increasing, according to government reports.
Revenues were up more than $69 million in 2018, a $5 million increase over the previous year, The National Agricultural Exports Board reported in February. The improvement was credited to increased specialty coffee production and sales.
“We have seen an increase in coffee export revenues year by year and this is all attributed to our government’s efforts to raise the quality of coffee exports, whereby about 60 percent of the coffees that we export are specialty coffees,” exports board c.e.o. Bill Kayonga said.
The country’s specialty coffee production grew from nearly nothing in 2000 to 58% of the total national coffee output in 2017. Officials expect that to grow to 80% by 2020, according to a report by the Chinese News Agency Xinhuanet.