*Roast days are Tuesday and Thursday. Order by Sunday 11:59 pm EST
for Wednesday shipment or Tuesday 11:59 pm EST for Friday shipment
*Roast days are Tuesday and Thursday. Order by Sunday 11:59 pm EST
for Wednesday shipment or Tuesday 11:59 pm EST for Friday shipment
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
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.
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 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.
IMPORTER | The Coffee Quest |
FARMGATE PRICINGWhat'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 |