A brief introduction to the planting Market Price of Fine Coffee Bean varieties in Ted Manor in Sidamo area with fragrant Jasmine

Before the harvest season, Trabocca invites selected smallholder organizations / producers to participate in the production of micro-batches of coffee (about 1500 to 3000 kg), carefully picking 100% ripe red coffee cherries by hand (hence the Red Cherry Project). Trabocca provides financial loan support, new hardware equipment and production processing knowledge and technology to assist farmers, promising to buy at a good price as long as the quality of the actual output meets the cup test standards in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and Amsterdama Cup in the Netherlands. This year, the passing standard set by Trabocca is 88 points. The beans of the red cherry project are packed in plastic inner bags (GrainPro bags or vacuum box) immediately after the processing of the origin is completed, and then shipped to Djibouti for shipping. Strive for perfect quality through immediate monitoring, safe transportation and timely and appropriate handling. Yirgacheffe comes from Yirga, a small town in the northwest of Sidamo province. Yirgacheffe coffee raw bean is one of the most distinctive coffee in the world, rare and expensive. It is produced in the plateau of Ethiopia's Sidamo province (2000 meters above sea level). It is an outstanding representative of washed coffee in Africa. It has always been famous in the eyes of global coffee connoisseurs. Rare washed high-quality Elaraby plus coffee, suitable for all degrees of baking, perfectly showing a fresh and bright aroma of flowers and fruits. Beautiful and complete bean shape, is the general mocha incomparable high-grade coffee. It has unique fruit aromas of citrus and lemon, with the aroma of jasmine, and has a sour taste similar to that of wine. It tastes clean and has a long finish like freshly boiled fresh citrus fruit tea.

Monlinique I reigned in 975 BC. The Kingdom of Nubia was established in the 8th century BC.

From the 1st century to 976 AD, the Ethiopian Empire, also known as the Kingdom of Aksum, was established in Aksum in the north. Christianity was introduced into Ethiopia in the 4th and 5th century. From the 12th century to 1270, the Zagvi dynasty was established.

In 1270, the Abyssinian Empire was established. [3]

The early invasion period of western colonialism

Portugal and the Ottoman Empire invaded one after another in the 16th century. British troops invaded Ethiopia in 1867 and Sudanese Mahdi troops invaded in 1887.

In 1889, Mennelik II became emperor, unified the country, established the capital Addis Ababa, and established the territory of modern Ethiopia. In 1890, Italy invaded, squeezed out British power and declared Ethiopia a "sanctuary". In 1896, Menlinique II led the army to defeat the Italian army in Adua and was forced to recognize the independence of Ethiopia. [1]

During the reign of Emperor Selassie

Haier Selassie was made regent in 1916 and became king in 1928. On November 2, 1930, he was crowned Emperor Haier Selassie I. In 1936, Italy invaded again, occupied Addis Ababa, conquered Ethiopia, and Selassie went into exile in London. The allies defeated Italy in 1941 and Selassie I returned home on May 5 of the same year. He stepped down after a domestic coup in 1974. [3]

During the period of military rule

In September 1974, a group of young and strong officers formed the "Coordination Committee of the Army, Police and Local Forces" (that is, DERGUE, meaning SHADOW, and later generally referred to the junta and Mengistu regime) to launch a military coup, overthrew the Haier Selassie government, and announced the end of monarchy and the establishment of a "interim junta." In November, the "interim military government" was changed to "interim military Administrative Council". In December, the interim military Administrative Council declared Ethiopia a "socialist country", nationalizing land, financial and financial institutions and industry.

The taste of Sidama in the sun is close to the smell of flowers, but it is about a little earthy. Water washing has a nutty fruit aroma with a slight cocoa aroma, but what the two have in common is smooth taste and viscosity, comfortable and pleasant acidity and fragrance. Light or medium roasting is suitable for individual products, while medium or deep roasting is suitable for blending coffee and good Espresso base.

The washed Sidamo is light green, the beans are small, the growth is oval, the fruit is full, the average quality is good, the smell is fragrant and mellow, a drop of entrance, endless aftertaste, with wild beauty. It is elegant and playful, mild and pleasant taste, and later bright lemon acid to form a strong taste impact, taste unique mellow, back sweet chic and pleasant, slowly rising tail contains chic sweet Sidamo coffee raw beans slightly gray, some places thick and some places small, soft and strong acidity, mellow and light, sweet and spicy, is one of the courtyard coffee in the highlands of southern Ethiopia. Unlike ordinary African coffee, Sidamo has clear acidity, smooth taste and delicate floral smell.

The coffee in Sidamo has a variety of flavors. Different soil types, microclimates and countless native coffee species, towering mountains, highlands, plateaus, valleys and plains, diverse topography, and the geology of the area belongs to nutrient-rich, well-drained volcanic soil. the depth of the soil is nearly two meters, and the surface soil is dark brown or brown. The biggest advantage of the area is that the soil fertility is maintained through the circulation of organic matter, using the withered leaves of the surrounding trees or the residual roots of the plants as fertilizer. Therefore, the coffee produced in cities and towns has obvious differences and characteristics. In 2010-2012, it continuously obtained the high score of CR92~94, the authoritative coffee evaluation website in the United States. Thus it can be seen that the raw beans in this area are extraordinary.

Kaibedo is a small coffee cooperative in a small town in Dala, Sidamo Province. each small coffee farmer here has an average planting area of about 0.6 hectares and is composed of hundreds of coffee farmers. it is planted nearly 2000 meters above sea level, the climate varies greatly, and the soil is fertile, providing an excellent growing environment, and the raw bean itself exudes a strong aroma of raisins and fermented wine. The nearly yellowish-brown beans are actually small and slender, but the weight on the hands is very solid. After baking, we find that the bright berry aroma, or rich chocolate-like aftertaste, makes this bean have an eye-catching performance whether it is light baked or deep baked.

Flavor: berries, tropical fruits, fermented wine, jujube, tea, milk chocolate. Body medium, with a hint of spices and tea in the finish, is complex and persistent, tastes cleaner when cooled, and highlights the balance of the Red Cherry Project (Operation Cherry Red), a small-scale farm quality improvement project since 2005, led by Dutch trading company Trabocca BV and partly funded by the Dutch government. This project, which enhances coffee production and quality in remote areas of Ethiopia by providing producer expertise and related technology assistance, has been selected since 2005 for small coffee cooperatives at high elevations in Sidamo, Yegashev and Lim. Encourage and assist producers to improve the quality of coffee through testing (professional cup testers are also stationed in coffee producing areas) to ensure the quality of each batch by improving washing, semi-washing, solarization or other experimental treatments as far as they can.