Ethiopian Coffee Export Ethiopia Coffee grading system

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[export of Ethiopian coffee]

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) Cooperative system

(3) 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).

What is ECX?

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 (WorldBank) 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.

[grading of Ethiopian coffee]

The definition of the grade of Essex coffee is complicated.

The Ethiopian Department of Agriculture has a department called Cupping and Liquoring Unit CLU, which is responsible for the quality approval of exported coffee, which includes a very important responsibility of grade definition; CLU existed before ECX.

Before the advent of ECX, for washed coffee, the export grade was G1 and G2; for sun-cured coffee, the export level was G3, G4, G4, G5, which means that the highest level of sun exposure was G3.

After the emergence of ECX, there is a redefinition of classification, and there is no difference in the classification name of washing, while the definition of sunlight appears for the first time G1, which is why Esser's sunburn is G1 and G2, while G3 begins to decrease slowly.

Grade1 stands for 3 defective beans per 300g of raw beans; Grade2 stands for 12 defective beans per 300g. Of course, in fact, the standards of defective beans between sellers and buyers must be a little different (otherwise, why else can we pick out so many defective beans? ), but the comparison of defect rates is still easy to tell. The defective beans in the G1 are significantly fewer than those in the G2, which means that, excluding the effects of specific flavor and roasting, Ethiopian G1 coffee beans are of higher quality and higher scores than G2 coffee beans, at least clearly distinguishable in terms of defective flavor.

Ethiopia, as the largest coffee producer in Africa, still has a lot of materials and a long space. Thank you for your patience. Coffee has also experienced a lot from a seed to the cup of coffee in front of it. I hope this article can help you learn more about Ethiopian coffee.

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