Description of flavor and distribution of producing area of Ye Jia Xuefei Aduo

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What are the characteristics of the Ethiopian Sunshine Yaga Sheffield G1 Aduoda Cooperative?

Country Ethiopia

Producing areas: Godeo, Cochere, Adorto

2000-2300 meters above sea level

Variety Ethiopian Guyou variety

The annual rainfall is about 1800-2000 mm

Treatment of sun exposure

Scored 93 points in coffee review in September 2017

Scored 95 points in coffee review in November 2017

Aduoda Cooperative is located in the Guido producing area (Gedeo Zone) on the southeastern plateau of Ethiopia, south of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. The people of Guido (commonly known as Darasa) are considered to be a very different group in culture and language, bordering Sidama to the east, Alaba to the north, Burji to the west, and Guji to the south. These people belong to the East Cushitic language family, and traditionally take the upstream cliffs of the Sidamo northern rift graben as the main active area. Today, Guido is one of the most densely populated areas in Ethiopia, with residents mainly settled in the two larger towns of Bule and Dila, with Gedeo as the main ethnic group.

The Yega Coffee Coffee small Farmers Cooperative Union (YCFCU), which began in 2002, represents 24 junior cooperatives with more than 50, 000 farmers, of which the Aduoto Cooperative, with 1177 members, is part of it. Located in the verdant mountains, the coffee farms of the members are distributed between 2000 and 2400 meters above sea level. Coffee and enset (a banana-like crop, mountain banana) are traditionally cultivated in the Gedeo area, keeping the soil fertile and providing a good shade for coffee trees.

In 2006, the Adoduo Cooperative fell into a crisis of abolishment because it did not have any operational equipment to produce coffee. In 2007, a new ecological peel peeling machine (Eco depulper) was built for 25 small farmers to produce small amounts of coffee. The membership continued to grow over the next three years, and new equipment and infrastructure such as washing treatment stations, sun scaffolding and so on slowly increased. And through educating local farmers on sustainable development of farming methods and loans and farmers' financial assistance to establish a close relationship between cooperatives and farmers. This aid project has successfully made the Adoduo Cooperative a model for providing stable quality tanning and washing Ethiopian coffee.

Flavor introduction: the moment this bean opened the bag, it was as if a blueberry bomb exploded, bringing out tropical fruit flavors such as dried pineapple. This coffee has a strong aroma of blueberry and strawberry, with the smell of honey, ripe grape, peach, citrus and so on. With the change of temperature and the lower the temperature, the aroma of fermented blueberry wine becomes more and more obvious. Blueberry wine changes to strawberry wine with a slight brown sugar aroma.

Yirgacheffe itself is a small town, with three small producing areas Wenago, Kochere and Gelena Abaya nearby, and Kochere is also classified into Yejashafi because it produces coffee with almost the same flavor. Ethiopia implemented a new trading and grading system in November 2009, with the establishment of the Commodity Exchange (ECX), through which coffee and other agricultural products are auctioned publicly. In addition to Yegashifi, three new by-product areas, Wenago, Kochere and Genlena Abaya, have been added, which shows that the flavor of these three areas is so detailed that it can be subdivided. Since the implementation of the ECX system in 2008, most raw coffee beans have been sold by auction, but cooperatives are not under this jurisdiction, and they can directly contact buyers, negotiate prices and export.

The Adado Cooperative is one of the 26 alliances of the Yegashev Coffee Farmers' Cooperative Union (The Yirgacheffe Coffee FarmersCooperatives Union) (YCFCU). YCFCU, which now represents more than 50, 000 coffee farmers and representatives of more than 300000 families, was founded in June 2002. all 26 alliances are located in the Gedeo region of southern Ethiopia and is an important coffee producing area in Ethiopia.

Ethiopia in Africa is known as the Garden of Coffee Eden because it is the hometown of native coffee and a treasure trove of genes of coffee breeders. It has five boutique bean producing areas: Sidamo, Yirgacheffe, Harar, Limu and Gimbi. Among them, Yega Xuefei is located in the highest coffee producing area in Ethiopia, leaning on mountains and water. The coffee beans produced have their own unique flavor, which is called "Yejashafi flavor" by enthusiasts, which means strong aroma of jasmine, sweet tangerine, pleasant citric acid and sweet almonds.

The Adado cooperative comes from the Gedeo Zone producing area of Yegashefi. It is one of the founding cooperatives of the Yegashefi Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (YCFCU) and an important base of the Fair Trade Association in Ethiopia. Adado is located in the high-altitude lush mountains of 2000 to 2400 meters, where 1250 farmers work together. The traditional farming method of interplanting the original coffee and mountain banana (enset) makes the mountain banana bring shade to the coffee tree, enrich all the soil and add the unique flavor of the coffee. This batch of washed Yega Chuefei Adado (Adado) treatment plant G1 is the highest grade assessed by ECX as G1.