Tea, Coffee & Cocoa
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USAID partners with Ofi to invest US$8.1m in facilitating Peruvian coffee entry into premium markets
PERU – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has partnered with olam food ingredients (ofi) to make a joint investment of US$8.1 million…
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Looming contract defaults turn into nightmare for domestic exporters as low supply of cocoa beans hit Ivory Coast
IVORY COASY – Exporters of Ivory Coast’s cocoa beans are on the verge of defaulting their contracts due to a lack of beans and urgently…
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22 African countries dominate top fifty coffee producers globally led by Ethiopia: World Population Review report of 2023
GLOBAL – A new report from the World Population Review report of 2023 has ranked Ethiopia as the coffee leader of the African continent and…
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OCP Foundation partners with APNI and Ugandan stakeholders to boost coffee production
UGANDA – The OCP Foundation, in collaboration with the African Plant Nutrition Institute (APNI), an affiliation of Morocco’s science innovation hub Mohammed VI Polytechnic University…
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KTDA’s microfinance unit defaults US$10.4m loan terms of Dutch development bank FMO
KENYA – The non-deposit-taking microfinance institution in Kenya, fully owned by Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) is reported to have defaulted on terms of a…