LUANDA, Angola – At least 145 million bags of coffee are consumed annually worldwide and it is estimated that by 2030 there will be an increase in consumption of over two million bags. This was said by the director of the National Coffee Institute (INCA), João Ferreira Neto, who also mentioned a solution for the possible deficit.
“We think that this deficit that we’ll see in the world’s coffee production, can be overcome with a strong production in Africa”, said the source on an interview to ANGOP, in Luanda, on the sideline of the Inter-Africa Coffee Organization meeting.
However, the source explained, the continent currently records low productivity, weak competiveness and a poor manufacturing industry.
Thus, he stressed that it is important and necessary that the African continent begin to utilise what he called “technology of the coffee world” as a tool that will lead to the mechanisation of coffee production, with a view to achieving the results expected by the countries.
“It is necessary to remind that today in the world, at the level of commodities, after crude-oil, the most traded products are coffee and wood”, he clarified.
