The numbers are in, finally: Starbucks wants to buy 35 million pounds of coffee from Africa by 2009, a 100 percent increase from 17.6 million pounds it bought in 2006. Daily Guide February 21, 2008 Ghana is set to embark on various programs aimed at reviving its coffee sector as the country seeks to cut over reliance on cocoa for a bulk of its export earnings, Deputy Chief Executive of the state-run Ghana Cocoa Board, or Cocobod, told Dow Jones Newswires over the weekend. Charles Bernard Ntim said Cocobod, which is also in charge of the coffee sector, is set to embark on a five-year program. This will include rehabilitation of coffee plantations, replanting, provision of suitable planting materials to farmers as well as inputs like fertilizers to restore coffee output to around the 1980s level of 40,000 metric tons from 5,000 tons now. Meanwhile, Starbucks Corporation, the world's largest coffee chain expects to achieve its target of doubling coffee purchases from Africa by the e...