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Ethiopia Yegashefi Chelba Chaloba Cooperative introduction Sun Yega detailed description

Published: 2025-08-21 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2025/08/21, Professional barista exchanges please follow the coffee workshop (Wechat official account qianjiecoffee) Ethiopia is the country where coffee was first discovered, in terms of coffee quality and output, Ethiopia is still the most important producing country and the best, coffee is mostly the traditional Arabica species, the annual output is about 350000 tons and more than 70% are exported to countries around the world, about 15 million people in the country are engaged in coffee

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Ethiopia is the country where coffee was first discovered, and it is still the most important producing country and the best in terms of coffee quality and output. Coffee is mostly traditional Arabica species, with an annual output of about 350000 tons and more than 70% of which are exported to countries around the world. About 15 million people in the country are engaged in coffee-related industries, and more than 90% of the farms or cooperatives are planted in small areas. After 2008, crops produced in Ethiopia, including wheat, corn, sesame and coffee, were fully imported into the ECX trading system (Ethiopian Commodity Exchange) to replace the existing auction and export methods. Coffee farmers or cooperatives send coffee to warehouses concentrated in ECX. Beans of the same grade and the same production areas will be mixed and auctioned directly. You will not know which farmers or which cooperative production areas produced it.

In fact, this practice has no effect on output and quality, and it is easier to tell whether coffee is good or bad by price. What is triggered is that intermediate traders cannot freely track their satisfactory profits [low price and high quality] so that consumers will know more clearly, because they will be heavily taxed if they do not go through the ECX trading system, and now more than 90% of them are through this trading system. However, for buyers who love boutique coffee, ECX trading system is not a good thing. For this reason, Ethiopia launched the DST (Direct Specialty Trade) system in 2010. The DST system is an irregular Ethiopian auction. Only through the SCAA cup test standard of more than 80 points of boutique coffee specialty coffee can be traded with foreign raw bean merchants in the name of their own farm or cooperative.

In Ethiopia, sun-dried beans will be distinguished by adding 3 and 4 after the name (with a higher quality of 3). After the coffee cherry is harvested, the peel and pulp will be dried in the bean drying field immediately until the coffee is dried to 16% moisture. It is only then dried in a dryer to achieve the same moisture content, and then repeatedly rubbed soft with parchment or sheepskin until the surface mucosa is removed, polishing and drying this is the process of sun-dried beans.

Yegashefi Chelba Chaloba Cooperative, which is made up of 500 small farmers. The average farmer owns 2-5 hectares of land, and the surrounding mountains wind around the Chelba River. sun beans are a raw product at the end of the season and usually take 10-15 days to dry, when the style of coffee beans plays the most important role, good weather farmers laugh at bad weather farmers worry at all times and all over the world.

Property Characteristics: farm characteristics

Farmer Farm owner: Various small producers different kinds of small farmers

Region producing area: Gedeo

Grade level: red Cherry Project G3