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SHOONDHISA

Specs

 

Producers   Sookoo and smallholders of Shoondhisa

Region         Shoondhisa, Suke Qutto, Shakiso, Guji

Harvest       Winter 2023-2024

Varieties     Serto 74112

Process       Natural

Altitude       2,000-2,200 masl

Importer     Osito

 

SHOONDHISA

Producer Profile

The Dambi Uddo drying station, high up in the hills of Shakiso, Guji, buys cherry from roughly 100 small-holder farmers. While the norm in Latin America is for farmers to own many hectares with thousands of coffee trees, in Ethiopia, most growers are small landholders often harvesting coffee in their gardens, alongside crops for family consumption. The average farm size is 2.5 hectares. While this is actually larger than the average farm size in Colombia, planting is much less dense and nearly all of the production happens within a fully or semi-forested system. This means that there is much lower yield per tree and many fewer trees per hectare. All of the cherry that is delivered to Dambi Uddo is fully organic. The cherry is separated by sub-kebele upon delivery.

Guji

This famous coffee growing region is known for its rich, volcanic soil. High altitudes, bi-modal rainfall patterns and dry weather which allows for coffee to develop slowly and consistently here.

74112

74112 is one of six selections that were approved for release in 1974 as part of a CBD-resistance (Coffee Berry Disease) selection program. During the 1970's, researchers from the Jimma Agricultural Research Centre searched the forests in the Illuababora zone for CBD-resistant mother trees. Today 74112 has been widely distributed across most growing regions in the country.

Natural

TRANSPARENCY

IMPORTER

The Coffee Quest

FARMGATE PRICING

What's this?

FOB: "Freight on board," usually the price paid to the coffee exporter for coffee ready to ship. This includes price paid to the producer as well as milling, warehousing and transportation costs plus any intermediaries' fees and export costs.

Farmgate: the price paid by the exporter or other buyer to the producer or producer organization.

Tokuma exports their own coffee and pays themselves.

FOB PRICING

$3.40 USD per lb

SUBTEXT PAID

$4.55USD per lb

LOT SIZE

Subtext purchased 240 kg.

RELATIONSHIP LENGTH

Osito has been working with Mensur and the Tokuma group for five years. This is the second year we have purchased Mensu'r's coffee and the third year we have purchased from Tokuma.

QUALITY

Subtext cupping score of 86