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GORAA
Specs
Producers Sookoo & Smallholders of Shakiso
Station Suke Drying Station
Region Shakiso, Guji, Ethiopia
Harvest Winter 2023-2024
Varieties 74110 & 74112
Process Honey
Altitude 2,100 masl
Importer The Coffee Quest
GORAA
Producer Profile
Another lot from Ture Waji's Sookoo, and the only honey processed lot we purchased from Guji this season, Goraa was produced at Sookoo's Suke station in Shaakiso. We've been working with coffee from Sookoo for four years now and had the pleasure of meeting Ture in Ethiopia earlier this year. Ture has strong connections to the land, its community, and farmers, as he grew up in the region. After studying, he started as an export and farm manager at his cousin’s farm and company Mormora, and later at Guji Highlands Coffee. Thanks to the trade and coffee liberalization in Ethiopia, he was able to start Sookoo Coffee (formerly known as Dambi Uddo), building his first drying station and exporting his first coffee under his own brand in 2018. Between harvests, Ture and his team educate farmers on good agricultural practices, to help improve the quality of their cherry. The washing stations employ a ‘woman-first’ policy and the company has built a school for the children.
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.
Local Landraces
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.
Short and compact with small leaves, cherries, and beans; Gibirinna 74110 is one of the most planted varieties in Ethiopia. The mother tree of this variety was selected in 1974 by JARC (Jimma Agricultural Research Centre) in the Metu province for its CBD resistance. After research and development by JARC, it was released in 1979 and recommended for planting in the altitude range of 1,500-2,100 masl.
Honey
Depulped and moved immediately to raised beds where the coffee dries for 15-20 days, and is moved regularly to ensure even drying.
TRANSPARENCY
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 |