Ethiopian Coffee Trading system explains in detail the relationship between price and quality of Ethiopian coffee beans

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According to the Ethiopian decree, there are three coffee export systems: (1) the largest private processing plant system that has been exported through ECX bidding; (2) the cooperative system; and (3) the single farm system. In these three systems, cooperatives and single estates can be exported directly without competitive bidding through ECX, which can be said to have completely reliable traceability / product curriculum vitae (traceability).

However, if we get to the bottom of the matter, the cooperative is, after all, a centralized treatment of cherries harvested by small farmers, not 100% traceable. After all, a single farm is the only possibility of moving forward to the next generation.

Source: ECX

Ethiopia Commodity Exchange

The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange, hereinafter referred to as ECX) was founded in 2008 by Eleni Gabre-Madhin, a former senior economist at the World Bank (World Bank) and director of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The original purpose of ECX is to establish the first commodity exchange in Ethiopia and Africa, through the introduction of pricing mechanism, warehousing logistics, instant messaging and other modern trading rules and technologies to change the situation of high transaction risk and high transaction cost in the Ethiopian agricultural market, and build an effective, reliable and transparent commodity market.

ECX was widely praised at the beginning of its creation as a way to transform Ethiopian agriculture and reduce famine and poverty. In the past, Ethiopian farmers often claimed in the overwhelming media coverage that ECX provided market access to more than 2.4 million small farmers through rural cooperatives.

The way ECX deals with coffee goes something like this: first, farmers sell coffee berries to local washing plants, some of which pay higher prices for better quality coffee berries. The washing plant will send the processed raw beans to the warehouse of the delivery station.

ECX is equivalent to a "distribution center" and does the following:

1. The price is better guaranteed, it buys coffee beans from coffee farmers at constant and relatively favorable prices, and then hoards them.

two。 Coffee is graded, and the best has the highest price.

3. With timely information, coffee farmers can immediately get the transaction price, regional processing station, regional coffee warehouse and other information by phone.

4. Warehousing and processing plants have been set up. As of 2012, Ethiopia has 56 warehouses in 17 locations, 9 of which have coffee warehouses, reducing transport costs.

Take the Yega Snow Coffee area as an example, the delivery station is Dila, and raw beans are labeled according to the producing area and graded according to their quality and test results. The higher the overall quality, the higher the selling price. Traders buy raw beans through ECX, but at most, producing areas and villages are marked on the packaging, such as "Yega Xuefei: Konga" (Yirgacheffe: Konga). Yega Sheffield: Cochel (Yirgacheffe: Kochere)

Name and introduction of Coffee Cooperative in Ethiopia

Farmers' Cooperative Union Farmers' Cooperative Union

In order to facilitate the direct export of farmers' cooperatives, farmers' cooperatives in various places have gathered and formed their own cooperative alliances. There are now six cooperative alliances (Farmers' Cooperative Union) in Ethiopia, namely

● Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (OCFCU)

● Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (SCFCU)

● Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (YCFCU)

● Kafa Forest Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (KFCFCU)

● Bench Maji Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (BMCFCU)

● Tepi Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (TCFCU)

The advantage of cooperative alliance is to combine scattered small farmers and cooperatives to form a large collective, to participate in international projects, such as Firetrade, to provide a unified export to contact buyers, and a certain proportion of the harvest will be paid to cooperatives. Cooperatives deduct management costs, retain part for community development, and pay the rest to small farmers, so that small farmers can get more stable and convenient income. To cope with the cost of planting and living, this is why more and more small farmers are willing to join cooperatives.

Sigiga Cooperative (1600-2500 m)

Production area: Gedeo-Kochere Kochel

Number of members: 1862

Land attribute: red brown soil

Certificate: Fair Trade Fair Trade, UTZ Sustainable cultivation, Organic Organic Coffee

Finchewan Cooperative (1450-2000 m)

Production area: Gedeo-Wenago vena fruit

Number of members: 1271

Land attribute: red brown soil

Certificate: Fair Trade Fair Trade, Organic Organic Coffee

Konga Conga Cooperative (1750-2300 m)

Production area: Gedeo- Yega Xuefei

Number of members: 1556

Land attribute: red brown soil

Certificate: Fair Trade Fair Trade, Organic Organic Coffee

Hafursa Cooperative (1750-2300 m)

Production area: Gedeo- Yega Xuefei

Number of members: 1975

Land attribute: red brown soil

Annual output of raw coffee beans: 798000 kg

Average farm size: up to 4 hectares with an annual yield of about 600 kg per hectare

The cooperative has a washing station.

Certificate: Fair Trade Fair Trade, Organic Organic Coffee

Resa Cooperative (1000-1400 m)

Production area: Gedeo-Wenago vena fruit

Number of members: 2719

Land attribute: red brown soil

Two sets of coffee processing equipment are available.

Certificate: Fair Trade Fair Trade, Organic Organic Coffee

Addis Katema Cooperative (1000-1400 m)

Production area: Gedeo-Wenago vena fruit

Number of members: 891

The cooperative has a washing station.

Land attribute: red brown soil

Certificate: Fair Trade Fair Trade, Organic Organic Coffee

Biloya Biloya Cooperative (1600-2500 m)

Production area: Gedeo-Kochere Kochel

Number of members: 1203

Land attribute: red brown soil

Provide two sets of coffee processing equipment

Certificate: Fair Trade Fair Trade, Organic Organic Coffee

Worka Waka Cooperative (1650-2700 m)

Production area: Gedeb

Number of members: 305

Land attribute: red brown soil

Annual output of raw coffee beans: 457000 kg

Average farm size: maximum 4 hectares, annual yield of about 699 kg per hectare

The cooperative has all the processing equipment.

Certificate: Fair Trade Fair Trade, Organic Organic Coffee

Koke Cook Cooperative (1750-2300 m)

Production area: Gedeo- Yega Xuefei

Number of members: 828

Land attribute: red brown soil

A set of processing equipment can be provided

Certificate: Fair Trade Fair Trade, UTZ Sustainable cultivation, Organic Organic Coffee

Hama Cooperative (1600-2500 m)

Production area: Gedeo-Kochere Kochel

Number of members: 1505

Land attribute: red brown soil

A set of processing equipment can be provided

Certificate: Fair Trade Fair Trade, Organic Organic Coffee

Chichu Cooperative (1410-2000 m)

Production area: Gedeo-Dila

Number of members: 1675

Land attribute: red brown soil

Average farm size: up to 4 hectares, with an annual yield of about 591 kg per hectare

A set of processing equipment can be provided

Certificate: Fair Trade Fair Trade, Organic Organic Coffee

Michile Cooperative (1410-2000 m)

Production area: Gedeo-Dila

Number of members: 1206

Land attribute: red brown soil

Average farm size: annual yield per hectare is about 592 kg

A set of processing equipment can be provided

Certificate: Fair Trade Fair Trade, UTZ Sustainable cultivation, Organic Organic Coffee

Hase Haro Cooperative (1450-2000 m)

Production area: Gedeo-Wenago vena fruit

Number of members: 1519

Land attribute: red brown soil

Average farm size: up to 4 hectares, with an annual yield of about 591 kg per hectare

A set of processing equipment can be provided

Certificate: Fair Trade Fair Trade, Organic Organic Coffee

Dumerso Dumeso Cooperative (1750-2300 m)

Production area: Gedeo- Yega Xuefei

Number of members: 246

Land attribute: red brown soil

Two sets of processing equipment can be provided.

Certificate: Fair Trade Fair Trade, Organic Organic Coffee

Tumticha Cooperative (1410-2000 m)

Production area: Gedeo- Yega Xuefei

Number of members: 960

Land attribute: red brown soil

Two sets of processing equipment can be provided.

Certificate: Fair Trade Fair Trade, Organic Organic Coffee

Aramo Cooperative (1750-2300 m) (90 + Clinique producing area)

Production area: Gedeo- Yega Xuefei

Number of members: 2254

Land attribute: red brown soil

Two sets of processing equipment can be provided.

Certificate: Fair Trade Fair Trade, Organic Organic Coffee

Edido Ediot Cooperative (1750-2300 m)

Production area: Gedeo- Yega Xuefei

Number of members: 1044

Land attribute: red brown soil

A set of processing equipment can be provided

Certificate: Fair Trade, Organic Coffee

Adame Cooperative (1000-1400 m)

Origin: Gedeo-Wenago

Number of members: 533

Land Attribute: Red Brown Soil

One set of treatment devices available

Certificate: Fair Trade, Organic Coffee

Belekara Cooperative (1000-1400 m)

Origin: Gedeo-Wenago

Number of members: 685

Land attribute: Red Brown Soil

One set of treatment devices available

Certificate: Fair Trade, Organic Coffee

Adado Cooperative (1200-1700 m)

Production area: Sidamo-Bule

Number of members: 1,128

Land attribute: Red Brown Soil

One set of treatment devices available

Certificate: Fair Trade, Organic Coffee

Haru Cooperative (1200-1700 m)

Production area: Gedeo-Yejia Shefei

Number of members: 1,187

Land attribute: Red Brown Soil

One set of treatment devices available

Certificate: Fair Trade, Organic Coffee

In July 2017, two new coffee trade regulations could change this by giving coffee farmers the option to sell coffee beans to coffee processing plants within three days of their arrival at ECX warehouses.

Ethiopian Coffee Bean Single Farm

The system has always existed in Ethiopia, but it has not been a high proportion, and it has traditionally been a large commercial batch that does not pay attention to quality. With Ethiopia's emergence in the third wave of fine coffee in the past 20 or 30 years, in addition to traditional coffee practitioners, Ethiopia has gradually emerged a group of new talents influenced by western culture and hoping to bring changes to this industry. In addition to traditional exporters putting into production, it has also attracted a group of upsurge returning from Europe and America to their hometown.

How important is the Single Farm Project (SFP)? We all know that Ethiopia is dominated by smallholder systems, but it is impossible to achieve complete traceability in smallholder systems.

Single farms are the only answer to all these questions. Single variety batches, special treatment batches, customized batches, etc. Fine coffee development is a very important implementation concept,

For example, this bean belongs to a single farm, the micro-production area Hambella Hambella Manor.

Ethiopia Hambera Manor Single Farm Holy Lion Village

Ethiopia Hambela Benti Nenqua G1

Country: Ethiopia

Origin: Oromia Region

Guji Zone

Hambela Woreda

Benti Nenqua Kebele

Altitude: 2,150 m (GPS measurement height of treatment plant)

Breed: Heirloom

Annual rainfall: 1,500 - 2,000 mm

Treatment plant: Hambela

Ethiopian coffee beans

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