Ethiopia
Guji
Welichu Wachu Industry PLC
Various Smallholder Farms
Locally Selected Varieties
Natural
November–February
Cherry, Raspberry, Rhubarb, Sweet, Vanilla
2175 meters
N/A
60 kg w/ GrainPro
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This coffee was grown in the Demicha sub-area of Harsu Haro Muda kebele, or village, in the Guji growing region of Ethiopia by local smallholder producers. Producers in the area are part of a growing association overseen by Welichu Wachu Industry PLC, which also operates the wet mill at Muda Tatesa at which this coffee was processed. Welichu Wachu Industry PLC works with producers in eight different kebele associations across the Uraga woreda, or district, in Guji, and operates four different processing facilities in the region as well.
This coffee underwent Natural processing. After harvest, cherries are delivered to the washing station at Muda Tatesa, which is approximately ¾ km from the Demicha village. Cherries are floated to separate debris and under- or over-ripe cherries. After sorting, cherries are sun-dried to a humidity of 11% before being milled and prepped for export.
Learn more about coffee growing regions of Ethiopia on our blog.
Guji is a zone in the Oromia Region of southern Ethiopia. Most residents of this region are Oromo and speak the Oromo language, which is entirely different from Ethiopia’s main language of Amharic. Like many of the country’s coffee growing regions, the culture of the Guji Zone varies from woreda to woreda and speaks to the diversity of people who cultivate coffee. More small washing stations are being built in Guji to respond to the demand for improvements in processing to fully capture the range of attributes found in Ethiopian coffee. The Zone’s principal fresh water source is the Ganale Dorya river, which also acts as the boundary line with the neighboring Bale zone to the east.
To the west, Guji borders the southern Gedeb woreda of the Gedeo Zone in the neighboring Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s Region, part of the Yirgacheffe coffee growing area.
