When people in many parts of the world don't know what coffee is, Argo people in Ethiopia are already growing and drinking coffee.
It is said that coffee was first discovered by shepherds in Kafa mountain area of Ethiopia, and the name of coffee evolved from Kafa.
Around the15th century, coffee spread from Ethiopia to other countries.
From the big market in Gondel, the ancient capital of northern Ethiopia, merchants carried coffee beans in camel caravans to Sudan in the northwest and introduced them to Egypt and Mediterranean countries.
6. Cross the Red Sea eastward and spread to Yemen and Arabian Peninsula.
7. Middle Easterners call it "Arabic coffee".
8. Since then, coffee has been widely consumed.
9. Later, it spread to the Far East, and the third time it spread across the Pacific Ocean to the American continent.
10. In Ethiopia, almost every household has coffee trees, and coffee has become an indispensable part of their daily life.
1 1. Kafa province, which has the reputation of "hometown of coffee", accounts for half of the country's coffee production, and the coffee beans produced are full of flavor.
12. Today, coffee named after his hometown Kafa has been planted in more than 50 countries in the world.
13. Now, Brazil has become the new largest coffee producing area, and the United States also has the largest Ethiopian Arabian coffee market.
14. Therefore, Ethiopians proudly say that coffee is a generous gift they gave to the people of the world.
15. Coffee is the most important cash crop and export income source in Ethiopia, and it is also a part of Ethiopian life.
16. Therefore, it is called "the hometown of coffee".