Introduction to the Coffee Story of Suke Quto Farm in Ethiopia. Is the coffee good?

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Suke Quto Farm

After a forest fire, Tesfaye founded Suke Quto Farm, which is currently certified by the Organic and Rainforest Alliance, in a desire to protect the forest. It is possible to protect forests by distributing coffee and shade saplings in local communities. He recruited 150 outsiders and replanted the forest. With this idea in mind, Tesfaye realized his dream through Suke Quto Farm: to develop environmentally friendly coffee and maintain the local community with a steady income. Local small farmers harvest organic coffee and send it to Suke Quto farm for processing.

Tesfaye Bekele is the founder of Guji Coffee. When Guji focused on cattle farmers, he looked for new ways to make coffee more popular in Guji. "I don't think of myself as a coffee farmer. Because coffee is everything to me, it's not just a job. All my time and energy is devoted to the beans I harvest and process. Tesfaye Bekele explained.

"I come from a coffee-producing family, so I started to get in touch with coffee very early in my childhood. At first, I was not interested in coffee. "Tesfaye goes on and on." the work is hard and the days are long. But a few years later, I found myself in love with coffee. This was after I finished my studies, when I went back to my Shakiso woreda home in Guji. "

After graduating from Tesfaye, he began to work on natural resources and environmental protection in the Ethiopian government. "I was assigned to Guji and Borena (south of Guji). At that time, Guji and Borena were a large administrative region. The area now known as Guji is threatened by forest fires that have raged for three years in a row; from 1997 to 1999. The cause of the fire is often unknown, and Guji has lost a lot of forests.

"after the fire, the locals returned to the land and converted the land into farmland, such as growing moss bran and corn. As a responsible government official in the region, Tesfaye realized that he could not stop these people from returning to the land where Guji had been cut down. He needs to give people a choice. "my idea is to replant forests and increase coffee trees to increase diversity. The local community agreed, but they asked me to provide coffee saplings. "

Tesfaye took on the task of distributing a large number of coffee saplings in the community. He rented a big truck and began to divide the saplings equally. People began to ask me how long it would take for this crop to produce cherries. I replied, 'four or five years later,' they returned the seedlings to me. " Disappointed with the local community, Tesfaye reserved a piece of land with government money to prove that his idea was an effective and healthier alternative crop, distinct from other crops.

Tesfaye appointed several managers to ignore his field of training, but they all found the job unattractive because it had been fruitless for years. He couldn't find anyone who was willing to continue his life, so he quit to become a coffee farmer. After his first harvest, the community that refused to grow coffee returned to Tesfaye. "at first, they ran away, but then they came back and asked me to provide coffee saplings. I'm very proud of this idea, because all the farms you see in Guji today are inspired by Suke Quto Farm. "Tesfaye is the innovative force of Guji.

Technical information

Regional Guji

Variety Kurume, Welicho

Certified organic, rainforest alliance

Altitude 1800-2200masl.

Treatment water washing, sun exposure

Flavor description

Flowers

Lemon

Peach