What kind of coffee does Sidamo produce? how does Sidamo coffee taste?

Coffee is Ethiopia's main economic crop and the country's largest crop export and important industry. It accounts for 60% of Ethiopia's total export value and supports many small farms, as well as sugar, bananas and cotton. It is also Ethiopia's largest and important commodity export crop after oil, and it is also the largest export of Elaraby in Africa, with a total value of about US $300 million in 1997. in terms of total production, 94% are small farms and 6% are government agencies. because many farms are scattered and grow other crops, it has been difficult to integrate the figures correctly. However, the country's official coffee cultivation area is at least 400000 hectares, and the Ethiopian government encourages local farmers to improve their quality and productivity so that coffee farmers can expand their business scale and increase production capacity and exports.

During the harvest, farmers harvest fresh red fruit every day, and every two days the coffee fruit is sent as a unit or sold to a water washing plant for treatment. coffee fruit without a water treatment plant is usually naturally fermented for about 12 hours, and then passed through the sun for drying and shelling. in any case, farmers always try their best to send them to the water treatment plant for treatment. In order to sell better under the name of "washing treatment", in the water wash, coffee cherries soften the pulp after soaking and fermenting for about 12 hours, then pass through the waterway and stir to separate the pulp from the coffee beans. the pulp is discharged with the floodgates, while coffee beans need six days of sunshine to dry, but the processing time is only from sunrise to 11:00 and from 03:00 to sunset. The water content of raw beans after treatment should be about 12% ~ 12.5%. After selecting residual or shoddy beans, they are packed in sacks and trucked to the coffee auction house in the capital, Addis Ababa.

There are many water treatment plants on the main roads of coffee producing areas, especially in Jima area, and a large number of treatment plants are not fully utilized because of the fierce competition, so the person in charge of the treatment plant pays a higher price to the farmers, but worries about whether they can make a profit. Nowadays, a kilogram of raw beans usually sells for about 2 Birr (Ethiopian units). During the whole harvest period, the employees of the treatment plant worked for two months without a rest day, with a daily capacity of about ten bags per plant.

There are institutions such as research institutes in Jima, and farmers are taught to introduce new technologies and apply green manure crops to reduce fertilizer costs and improve the seeds of new varieties, so that coffee trees can have stronger resistance. the seeds are cultivated and grown for a year before they are resold to farmers who use improved seeds and methods to plant and do not blossom until the seventh year. In the past, yields were about 600lbs per hectare, but improved yields could reach 1000 pounds per hectare, and the agency even guaranteed yields of at least 700lbs per hectare.

There are several other coffee cooperation organizations in Gima, where members share water and fertilizers, and few members are deprived of their wages under their organizations and provide the health of each member.