Yega Shirley Felix Coffee Bean processing Plant featuring Red Cherry Project Coffee beans

Features of the Riko Coffee Bean Processing Plant

Lico's processing plant is located in the town of Kocher, within the Yegashefi region, and as such, produces coffee with attractive floral notes. The name Reko comes from a steep mountain on the Kocher Hills. Reko means challenge in the original meaning of Ethiopia. It brings out the meaning that it is not easy to climb Reko Mountain. It is also such a challenge that shows that it is not easy to get good coffee in the Yegashfi region.

The coffee harvest here falls between the end of October and the middle of January, and at this time of year the Riko plant gathers coffee cherries from nearby farmers. About 850 farmers bring their freshly harvested ripe red cherries here. Common transportation includes bicycles, donkeys and "omnipotent feet."

The varieties are mainly local Kurume and native species (Heirloom). After the cherries arrive at the processing plant, processing and post-processing are not easy, but the atmosphere in the processing plant is like a celebration. Farmers sing folk songs in Afaan Oromoa, and their hands keep sorting cherries. Songs and laughter echo in the valley.

Like many excellent coffees, Ricoeur's coffee is won by attention to detail. The team knows that coffee farmers can only produce the best coffee by knowing the information about ripe coffee cherries, so they provide training channels for their partners before harvesting.

In addition, since the fruits of nearby small farmers are collected, in addition to the actual selection of full-ripe red cherries, coffee cherries in the process are also classified according to harvest time and region.

The processing plant has a number of professional coffee managers stationed, using their strong expertise and accumulated experience over a long period of time, control all aspects of the processing process, so that the coffee beans from the origin of the processing plant to the consumer country can make the expected results.

Project Red Cherry

Since 2007, Operation Cherry Red Project has been initiated by Trabocca and local farmers to manually harvest 100% mature red coffee cherries at the beginning of the harvest season according to microclimate zones, which means that each coffee seed is mature and rich in nutrients.

Leeko Co-op uses refined shelving techniques to enable green bean producers and consumers to buy high-quality coffee beans, which are rewarded to farmers in return, making farmers more willing to work on quality improvement.

Ethiopian Red Cherry Program Sunlight Yegalico Treatment Plant G1

(Yirgacheffe Kochere Reko Washing Station G1)

■ Country: Ethiopia

■ Production area: Yirgacheffe

Kochere Woreda

■ Treatment plant: Reko Washing Station

■ Grade: G1

■ Treatment: Sunlight

■ Altitude: 1850-2100 m

■ Flavor description: citrus sweet, green apple, strawberry sweet and sour taste, fruit juice taste delicate fruit acid, light floral finish after the sweet honey flavor.