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Yegashev Coffee Farmers Union Cooperative Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperatives Union (YCFCU)

The Yegashev Coffee Farmers Union Cooperative (YCFCU) represents 26 cooperatives located in the Gedeo district of Southern Ethiopia, located in the towns of Yegashev, Jettip, Vanago and Cochel, and plays an extremely important role in the development of Ethiopian small 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, and 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.

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 money 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 helps to develop the flavor of Yegashev coffee and achieve excellent farming results and sustainable management.

The establishment of the YCFCU cooperative not only achieves the goal that international buyers are eager for Ethiopian coffee to provide a complete resume from origin to cup, but also enables cooperative members to gradually improve the education and quality of life in the village because of reasonable profits.

Yega Xuefei was born in the Sidamo region in the southwest of Ethiopia. Coffee beans are small and medium-sized, the color of raw beans is light and pale, and the shape of beans is complete and beautiful, so it has a certain representative position in fine coffee.

Now under the ECX system, the Yejashafi region has been divided into four small regions, namely, Yirgachefe, Wenago, Kochere and Genlena abay. The soil here is fertile, with an average altitude of 1800 meters above sea level. It is a high-altitude area with great differences between night and night. The mode of production in different regions, coupled with the native varieties of coffee coffee, make each batch of coffee beans taste different and have their own characteristics.

Yega Chuefei is a very delicate water-washed Arabica bean, with special and bright fruit sour and sweet, you can immediately feel the fresh and bright fragrance. This very stylish Yejia Chuefei, with its crazy floral aroma and lemon acid, the rich coffee tastes just right, and it tastes like tea. So many people will say that Yejia Xuefei does not taste like coffee, but rather like a soft and pleasant fruit tea. It can be both elegant and unrestrained, and it is also referred to as the queen of coffee by the Japanese.

Originally, Yega Chuefei was famous for its washing treatment, but now Yega Chuefei, which is processed on a daily basis, is also welcomed by the market for its rich and sweet berries. Also because of the substantial increase in demand, the output of Yega Xuefei in Japan has also increased a lot.