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The Yegashev Coffee Farmers Union Cooperative (YCFCU) represents 26 cooperatives located in the Gedeo region of Southern Ethiopia, located in the towns of Yegashev, Jettip, Vanago and Cochel, and plays an extremely important role in the development of small Ethiopian coffee farmers from poverty to self-sufficiency.

Small coffee farmers in Ethiopia generally have a planting area of no more than 1 hectare, and the harvest of raw coffee beans is so small that small farmers cannot support themselves and their families by growing coffee alone. at the same time, they also need to grow other cash crops to make ends meet. Before the establishment of YCFCU, the raw beans harvested by small farmers were still traded through ECX, and when the essence of ECX is to mix and grade all the products and sell them internationally at market prices, although small farmers can get better profits than before, they can not really get increased profits from the transaction because of excellent products. Over time, this situation is bound to lead to a decline in the quality of coffee beans. The mixed grading system also makes it impossible for foreign buyers to trace the resume and local information of Yegashev coffee raw beans, so organizations like YCFCU cooperatives, which aim to stabilize the fluctuation of coffee prices and improve the quality of Yegashev coffee and the profits of small farmers, are born.

The YCFCU cooperative is a coffee exporter recognized by the Ethiopian government. Small coffee farmers in Gedeo are free to join or not, and it is also a system maintained by grass-roots farmers. On the one hand, farmers are exempted from the unequal treatment of being peeled off by private treatment plants, on the other hand, it also provides a channel for international buyers to face village cooperatives directly.

In an economically backward area like this, it is very difficult for small farmers to have extra funds to buy chemical fertilizers, so they all grow coffee with natural and organic farming methods. Ethiopia has a large area of natural wild forest, and 90% of coffee-growing land can be found in the forest. The use of natural shading and intercropping methods contribute to the development of Yekashev coffee flavor and achieve excellent farming results and sustainable management.

The establishment of the YCFCU cooperative achieves the goal that international buyers are eager for Ethiopian coffee to provide a complete resume from origin to cup, and also enables cooperative members to gradually improve the education and quality of life in the village because of reasonable profits.

Country: Ethiopia

■ producing area: Halobariti, Worka

■ altitude: 1600-2300 m

■ treatment: insolation

■ level: G1

■ variety: Heirloom

■ flavor description: strawberry jam, peach, fruit with high sweetness, bright acid value and good cleanliness

Located at the southern tip of Yejiashev town, it is one of the highest coffee producing areas in this area, worka in Gedeo Zone, with an average altitude of 1600-2300 m. Founded in 2012, the Halobariti Cooperative, once a member of the Waka Cooperative, is a relatively recent cooperative and remote underdeveloped producing areas, there are still many rich virgin farmland to grow, and the advantage of the geographical environment is reflected in its excellent cup flavor.

Woka Cooperative's Sun Yega Chuefei has always been a quality assurance, and it is also the star product of Counter Culture and Klatch Coffee, the third wave of boutique coffee makers in the United States. Coffee Review, a well-known boutique coffee evaluation website, has repeatedly given high scores of 91 to 94.

Klatch Coffee, a well-known American company, won the Best Food Award (Good Food Award) in the food industry for this bean, and won the title of Best Coffee Shop of 2012 (2012 Best Coffeehouse) at the end of the year. The Waka Cooperative, which is part of the YCFCU Cooperative Alliance (Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union), was founded in 2005 and is located in a rather remote area of the Yegashafi producing area.

The cooperative, made up of 305 farmers with a planting area of 763 hectares, has obtained Fair Trade Organic Coffee (FTO) certification because it does not use any chemical fertilizers or pesticides in its coffee growing process. After the ripe cherries are picked, they are almost immediately put on the drying shed bed for sunlight, so that the sweetness of the flesh can be absorbed by beans. Sun treatment is especially suitable for areas where there is a lack of water, or in a very dry environment. In order to avoid excessive fermentation or even mildew, the fruit must be turned frequently on the drying bed to allow air to dry evenly, when the fruit is dried in the sun. Then sent to the dry processing plant (dry mill) to remove the dried pulp, the sun drying procedure is actually quite complicated, and it is easy to fail in the process, but good sun treatment can bring stronger sweetness, thicker taste and more detailed sour taste.

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