Ethiopians are pissed off about their good coffee going overseas

Baba Pugwuthi
Ethiopians are pissed off because they are not allowed to buy their own home grown excellent coffee. The government needs money and they need exports and only the crap stays in Ethiopia as the natives get stuck with the worse beans and the baddest of what is usually the greatest coffee on Earth. Ethiopians have also been asked to cut back their consumption of coffee as the farmers and growers struggle to keep up with demands around the world for coffee. Coffee is ubiquitous with Ethiopia as the nation practically invented the bean the story goes when some goat herder named Ramdel discovered the bean gave his goat and donkeys more strength when eating it some man many many many moons ago. Now bringing this back to modern ties todays citizen of Ethiopia loves coffee and having their government hold back the good beans to be exported for profit is angering the public in Ethiopian about their coffee.
To truly increase export volumes, Ethiopians would have to drink substantially less coffee. It is a target many say is nearly impossible. This is something the Wall Street Journal wrote about interviewing some Ethiopians
“If you tell an Ethiopian not to drink coffee, no one will listen to you,” said Wondwossen Meshesha, the 28-year-old operations manager at Tomoca Coffee, a family-owned roasting business and cafe chain famous for its macchiatos and fresh-roasted beans. Coffee is the top export and important for foreign exchanges in this poverty-stricken nation and the government needs an increase of coffee bean export to fund projects and pay for ne infrastructure. However urban incomes are rising and these jacks want some good dam coffee and not the crap that comes from neighboring Somalia.  Ethiopians will have to deal with the bad beans in their local cafes whether they like it r not because the country really has nothing else to offer the rest of the world in global trade and the world only wants their good beans for purchase.