The International Coffee Day was celebrated for the first time yesterday, Thursday (October 1) at the Milan World Exposition 2015. It offered visitors and participants to the Ethiopian Pavilion at the Exposition a chance to enjoy a traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony and sample numerous locally grown coffee varieties.
There were opportunities for business-to-business meetings with coffee producers, farmers' unions and exporters. Coffee producing cooperative unions presented the story of Ethiopian coffee and discussed current production and the sustainability of Ethiopian coffee in the world market. Visitors and Participants were also able to purchase traditional and fresh Ethiopian food and other beverages as well as coffee.
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