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Welcome to Q2 2024. While logistics are very much the squeaky wheel this quarter, we’re also glad to have coffees on the water making their way to the US from…
Read MoreAleta Wendo which is part of the newly founded Sidama Region is located in South Central Plateau at the approximate distance of 340 km for Capital Addis Ababa. Aleta Wondo is characterized by high altitudes and weather condition with elevation rages from 1700-2500masl. The pattern of rainfall distribution is bimodal. The short rainy season lasts from mid-November to February whereas the long rainy season is during summer and it extends up to October.
The out rowers are producing a garden coffee, where coffee is grown under canopies of large legume shade trees. The coffee plant; together with enset(false banana the staple food of the community) and other fruit trees, form a complex agroforestry system where material Sycle maintains farm nutrient supply. The coffee flowers in months of February, March and April. Harvest starts in September and runs until end of October or sometimes up to Mid-December. About 397 out growing members are exclusively delivering their red cherry to us in annual bases.
Kerchanshe Trading PLC, owns a coffee processing site at Boicha River Course; in Bulesa Kebele of Aleta Wondo Woreda. The processing unit has been functional since 2021, they collect red cherry for their outgrowing farmers. They process the red cherry in to parchment coffee.