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Coffee culture:

Historically, coffee has a lot to do with the history and religious culture of Ethiopia, which was called Abyssinia in ancient times.(Abyssinia), for Axum, belonging to the reign of Solomon Dynasty, according to historical records, Hamitic people migrated from Asia Minor to Ethiopia today, Semitic merchants came to this place from Arab countries about the seventh century BC, Byzantine Empire also entered this place from Rome in AD 341, traditional Christianity of ancient Egypt, It was also introduced into Ethiopia at this time and became one of the main religious beliefs of the country. In the fifth century, when Ethiopia was growing, it crossed the Red Sea and captured Yemen in 525 AD. Coffee was also introduced into Arabia at that time, and the legendary journey of coffee began.

In traditional Ethiopian families there are two or three coffee drinking hours per day, it has various drinking rituals or rituals, the traditional culture of coffee strongly supports the country's coffee cultivation in various ways, in the coffee growing areas of the country; Coffee has been used for a long time in this ancient country, sometimes roasted with barley, wheat, or peas, and ground to a powder with a mortar, poured into a pot, boiled, sometimes mixed with goat's milk, and sometimes with salt instead of sugar.

Coffee is also a household spice in some areas. Wild coffee is picked and washed, mixed with spices, pepper, ginger, preserved antelope meat, and sometimes used as a tonic or medicine for the sick and infirm.

In any case, the country's national consumption accounts for nearly half of the country's total harvest (about 1.9 million bags), coffee is the country's absolute drink, or religion, or culture, and even an important ritual of social banquets.

Growth and production patterns:

There are four types of growth and production in Ethiopia, and 95% of coffee is produced from these types or systems.

1. Forest planting

In Ethiopia's coffee growing regions in the south and west, most of them are wild or planted under natural forests, which provide natural shade for coffee trees, but the resistance is slightly weak. This production system accounts for about 10% of the total production.

2. Semi-forest development planting Semi-forest

The same in the south and south-west coffee producing areas, but belong to farmers deliberately planted, the same is to choose forests as shade trees, and often remove weeds and other non-coffee crops, to facilitate the growth of coffee trees quality, this production system accounts for about 35% of the total production.

3. Garden or home grown (Garden)

Garden coffee plantations are generally grown near farmers 'homes, usually in the south and east, with low planting densities of about 1000 to 1800 coffee trees per hectare. This system accounts for about 50% of total production and tends to increase.

4. Plantation

Large farms are mostly state owned (now gradually auctioned off to private enterprises) and smallholder farmers. Usually this system is only systematic cultivation and improvement, even sunlight exposure, fertilizer type and amount, etc., are closely controlled. This production system accounts for about 5% of total production.