Ethiopia - G Broad Trading PLC

Adanech Gemede, Wegida, Yirgacheffe, Grade 1 Natural

Since the passing of her husband in 2016 Adanech Gemede has taken on the role as the leader of the family and also assumed responsibility of managing the 6.45 hectares coffee farm. With the help of her son Tego, Adanech’s family farm has been able to improve in quality and yield year on year.. The new Ethiopian coffee marketing and quality control policy which entitles smallholder coffee farmers to have access directly to the national and international markets has opened up a great opportunity for her and thousands of farmers in Ethiopia. She was amongst very few women coffee farmers to get the smallholder coffee farmer export license. Immediately after securing the license in 2018 she ceased selling her cherries to local collectors and joined Jabanto coffee producer and exporter group. Adanech produces coffee from a total of 28 coffee plots distributed in Aricha and Wegida Kebeles (totalling 6.45 hectares). The interaction of the

elevation of the farms (1980-2200 meters which is high altitude) with great varieties (74110, 74112, Kurume) grown on the farm compounded with her great dedication and focus on post harvest handling activities could help her produce superior coffee lots.

Coffee Processing

Adanech receives technical support on coffee agronomy and post harvest handling practices from a local bureau of agriculture and G Broad Trading PLC, and this has resulted in quality and yield improvements year on year.

Prior to laying the cherry for drying, Adanech sorts the cherry in water, removing floaters and underripe fruit. The remaining ripe red cherries are dried for 18-21 days on a raised bed usually called an African raised bed. During all these days, cherry quality control continues. A total of 11 Kg of red coffee cherry per square meter is distributed on a drying bed made of

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bamboo mat. To maintain uniform drying among beans, the coffee is turned around on the bed manually six times per day. The cherry is then covered with nylon mesh and plastic during the night time. Starting the 15th day, the trend of coffee bean moisture loss is monitored to pull the dried cherry off the bed if the coffee bean attains a moisture level between 9.5% and 10.5%. This natural coffee processing technique plus the complex interactions among soil, rainfall distribution, temperature, shade, and genetic makeup of varieties play the greatest role to affect the quality profile of a specific coffee lot.

Jabanto Producer Group

Jabanto farmers business group was established in 2018 with the help of G Broad PLC. An initial 29 smallholder coffee farmers from Gedeo zone founded the group in 2018 and the size of the group kept expanding over years - today there are 87 registered smallholder coffee farmers in the group. The group tries to produce different coffee types: regional lots, village level lots, single farmer lots, variety lots and processing lots. The collaboration between Bi-Lab and Co-Lab, specialized coffee laboratories owned by G Broad in Addis Ababa and Condesa in Sydney respectively, could help better define coffee sourcing approaches, quality control mechanisms, marketing and promotion opportunities for farmers.

Single farmer lots represent the largest percentages of the product developed at Bi-Lab and Jabanto, Condesa's coffee sourcing collaborators at origin in Ethiopia. Promoting coffee lots under the name of a smallholder coffee farmer is at the heart of our business and development philosophies. Out of 87 registered member farmers in the Jabanto farmers business group, those farmers who produce an outstanding coffee with superior quality and cup score are promoted as a single farmer lot. We pay a better and higher price for a single framer lot as compared to a composite (group) lot - for example Jabanto lot. We believe that rewarding farmers for quality is a good mechanism to create competition among farmers for quality and motivate them to produce better quality coffees year after year.

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General information

• ●  Altitude: 2108 m.a.s.l

• ●  Kebele (Village): Wegida

• ●  Woreda (County): Yirgacheffe

• ●  Zone: Gedeo

• ●  Region: Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR)

• ●  GPS Coordinates: 6.17166667, 38.26888889

• ●  Average Rainfall: 1900-2100 mm

• ●  Soil Type: Nitosols

• ●  Average Farm Size (Hectares): 6.45

• ●  Founding year with Jabanto: 2018

• ●  Variety: Kurume, 74110, 74112