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Sidama Guji Kaiyong Mountain Single Farm Sun-dried Micro Batch Ethiopian Fine Coffee Beans

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Single Farm Solarization Microbatch in Guji Kaiyong Mountain, Ethiopia

Country Ethiopia

Oromia Region

Guji Zone

Shakisso Woreda

Treatment Plant Kaiyong Mountain Manor has its own treatment plant

Producer Ato Esmael

Altitude 1,900 - 2,200 m

Varieties Ethiopia Ancient excellent varieties (Heirloom)

Annual rainfall of approximately 1,200 - 1,400 mm

African solar drying

The sunburn batch is a blend of our favorite tropical fruit juices such as blueberries, mangoes and strawberries.

Kaiyong Mountain Single Farm was founded in 2012 by Ato Esmael and his family.

The entire farm covers an area of about 300 hectares,

About 200 hectares of it are still virgin forest.

The selected site of Kaiyong Mountain Farm is located in the essence of Shakisso/Shakiso in Guji.

it is about 500 kilometers away from the capital adis ababa.

Gugi is actually located on the east side of yegga sherphine.

But next to it is Hambela.

If you want to go to Shakisho, you don't usually go through Yekaterinburg.

Instead, it takes about six hours to travel south from the capital to reach Yirga Aleam town,

Abandon the right side of the road to the Yerca Coffee region

Turn left onto Route 82, heading southeast,

We're about four hours away from Charkiso.

(N 5°46 21"E 38 °54 9", elevation about 1730m).

The most famous economic activity in the history of the Guji region is gold mining!

And Kibre Mengist, the main gold-mining area, is just northeast of the town of so,

Looking for beans nearby, up and down the mountains.

There is no shortage of opportunities to pass through Kuangqu, or past the ruins of stream gold mining

The gold mining industry of real gold and silver is interesting in contrast to coffee and black gold.

As we've been observing and pursuing for the last few years,

One is the rise of the Gugi region,

Another is the development of single farm systems,

This seems to be the year when both trends blossom and flourish.

Among several trends in the development of Ethiopian specialty coffee,

We discussed with you at the cup test the year before last

An important trend and prediction is the rise of single farm systems.

If you remember, according to Ethiopian law, there are three coffee export systems,

(1)The largest number of privately owned treatment plant systems exported through ECX bidding;

(2)Cooperative system;(3) Single farm system. Among these three systems,

Cooperatives and single estates can be exported directly without bidding through ECX

It can be said that it has completely reliable traceability/product traceability.

But if we get to the bottom of it, cooperatives are after all buying cherries harvested by small farmers for centralized processing

Not 100% traceable.

A single farm is, after all, the only possibility of moving forward to the next generation.

Single farm systems have always existed in Ethiopia,

However, the proportion has been low, and traditionally it is a large number of commercial batches that do not pay attention to quality.

As Ethiopia emerges from the third wave of fine coffee in the last two or three decades,

Besides traditional coffee practitioners,

Ethiopia has also gradually emerged a number of western cultural influences,

New players hoping to bring change to the industry, in addition to traditional exporters are moving into production,

It also attracted a wave of return from Europe and America to their hometown.

And single farm systems

How important is the Single Farm Project (SFP)?

We all know Ethiopia is dominated by a smallholder system,

However, smallholder systems are impossible to achieve full traceability,

Single variety batches, special treatment batches,

Custom batches and other specialty coffee developments are very important implementation concepts

Single farms are the only answer to all these questions.

There are also many different places in the Guji region and the Yerca Coffee region that everyone is generally chasing.

Location, local conditions, nationalities, languages, etc. are all different.

Coffee flavor is typical of Ethiopia under the premise of wonderful flavor,

There are also subtle differences. Guji belongs to Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, the Oromo,

In Oromifa,

Yerga Shefi is the traditional settlement of the Gedio people.

Overall, the coffee region became famous early in development,

Guji is a rising star. On the one hand, Guji area is larger,

It is not difficult to find fertile virgin land protected by virgin forests at high altitudes,

Moreover, yekashef has long been a battleground for fame.

Most of the new treatment plants or farms are located in Guji producing areas,

It is not difficult to imagine that Guji will be an important engine for Ethiopian fine coffee innovation in the coming years.