Angola reported revenues of US$2 million from its exports of coffee in 2015, said Angola’s National Coffee Institute.

The sum represented a 262-percent jump from the US$552,000 generated from such exports in 2014 and an approximately 208-percent increase from the US$650,000 realised in 2013, said the institute, as quoted by Angolan newspaper O País this week.

The growth in coffee export revenues was linked in part to increasing demand for Angolan coffee in Middle East countries as well as steady demand from European trading partners such Portugal, Italy and France, the report said.

The Institute hopes to double Angola’s annual coffee yield from the current capacity of 15,000 tonnes a year in the next two to three years.