A brief introduction to the characteristics of coffee in Ethiopia, Ethiopia, the largest producer of coffee beans in Africa.

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Qianjie-A brief introduction to the Guji producing area of coffee production in Ethiopia

A lot of the coffee we drink now is made from Arabica coffee beans. Ethiopia is not only an important producing area of Arabica coffee beans, but also the largest producer of Arabica coffee beans in Africa. With 15 million people living on it, Ethiopia is an important pillar of the economy.

However, climate changes such as rising temperatures and reduced rainfall are affecting the coffee bean industry step by step. NPR reports that in some parts of Ethiopia, spring and summer rainfall is 15 to 20 percent less than it was in the 1970s. In Gore in the southwest, rainfall is 40 inches less than it was in the 1950s. The proportion of droughts is getting higher and higher, affecting the harvest of coffee beans.

Ethiopia may lose 39 to 59 per cent of its coffee harvest due to climate change, according to the journal Natural Plants. Aaron Davis, a scientist at the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, said: "Coffee farmers in Ethiopia bear the brunt of climate change. He said that many farmers had told him that the harvest had decreased.

Ethiopia, the largest coffee producer in Africa, is undergoing production and marketing reforms in the coffee industry and plans to triple production in the next five years. With the decline in the productivity of old coffee trees in Ethiopia, the country is cutting down existing trees and replacing old ones with new ones, allowing new branches to sprout. The Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority said this could help increase production to 1.2 million to 1.8 million tons by 2024, up from 600000 tons a year recently.

According to the authorities, old coffee trees account for about 60% of the 1 million hectares of land, while another 1.5 million hectares of coffee trees are newly planted and have not yet been produced. The country's new factories, where small farmers account for almost all production, will take about three to four years to start production.

According to Adugna Debelabot, director-general of the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority, marketing reforms are helping producers skip several steps in the supply chain. This will help increase the income of farmers, who currently receive about 60 per cent of the price of coffee. "under the new reform, farmers can export directly. We are raising awareness, which will be achieved in production this year. "

Ethiopia Sidamo (Sidama)

Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee, and Sidamo is an important coffee export province, because of the topography, soil composition and regional microclimate, the taste of coffee beans grown in each town area of the province varies slightly. Washed Sidamo is a typical boutique coffee, which is no less popular in Taiwan than Yega Chuefei. It is clear in taste, sour and sweet with lime aroma, and has a very balanced sense.

Guji, located on the edge of Sidamo, used to be one of the mini-producing areas in Sidamo province.

With its superior geographical location and cup flavor, Guji has been independently divided into a new producing area in Ethiopia's unique ECX trading system. In 2010, Guji officially became an independent producing area. At present, it belongs to Oromia Region → Guji Zone in administrative division, and its rank is the same as that of Ye Jia Xuefei. However, most buyers still think that he is in the province of Sidamo, so he is often referred to as Sidamoguji.

The rise of Guji can be said to rely on the conditions in the sky, the mountains are surrounded by native coffee trees, after countless generations of natural evolution, coffee trees have different forms, but all have luxuriant branches and leaves and lush. Guji has a lot of primeval forests and a large area of land has not been developed. Even the newly developed farmland in the manor retains a considerable amount of primeval forests and achieves a natural balance with the environment.

Guji production area of high altitude, but completely beat Yega Xuefei! The elevation is as high as 2250 to 2350 meters, even on part of the way up the mountain, it has reached nearly 3000 meters! Such a unique geographical location, ideal microclimate environment, so that Guji can give birth to a different flavor of coffee from other regions, and the coffee grown is of course extraordinary.

Knowledge expansion: the first place in the world to discover Arabica coffee trees. Coffee is grown almost everywhere in Ethiopia, with thousands or even tens of thousands of coffee varieties.

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