ADDIS ABABA, March 15 -- Ethiopia has earned 1.226 billion U.S. dollars in revenue from coffee exports over the past eight months, the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority (ECTA) said on Friday.

Following several reforms taken by the government and pertinent stakeholders to gain the most out of the sector, the East African country exported more than 257,000 tonnes of coffee during the first eight months of the current 2024/2025 Ethiopian fiscal year, the ECTA said in a statement.

The authority attributed the growing revenue to the government's reform, which resulted in increased coffee production, productivity, and quality, which in turn gave rise to higher export volumes.

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