Angola Invests In Coffee

Angola, one of the many war-battered central African countries, is to invest $150 million back into its own coffee producing industry. In the sixties and seventies Angola was one of the larger coffee producers in Africa, exporting up to 200,000 tonnes of coffee per year. Three years ago there was only one coffee producer left in Angola after the 27-year civil war that started in 1975. Now there are seven and the reinvestment is intended to bosot those numbers significantly with a goal of reaching 50,000 tonnes of exports by 2013.

Coffee producers in the region are now getting $4 per kilo. However, don’t expect to be seeing fancy estate-grown Angolan coffees very quickly. Angola is best known for Robusta coffees, which are higher in caffeine but said to have less flavor. They are commonly blended with arabica coffees to make the mass-market blends and to make instant coffee.

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