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Kota Cooperative Limu Grade 1 FW

Kata Muduga Multipurpose Farmers' Cooperative Union
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Origin
Ethiopia
Producer
Kata Muduga Multipurpose Farmers' Cooperative Union
Variety
Heirloom
Process type
Fully washed
Harvest period
October, 2021 - January, 2022
Algrano's cupping score (SCA)
88.25 points
Updated March, 2022
ID
ET-109-202110
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The coffee story

Kota Cooperative
Location: Jimma region
Altitude: 1950-2000 masl
Farmers: 275

Kota is a primary cooperative part of Kata Muduga Multi-purpose Farmer's Cooperative Union. The Union is based at Agaro town,  45 km from Jimma, the largest city in southwestern Oromia Region in Ethiopia, and 397 km from Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Kata Muduga works with farmers from 5 rural districts in the Jimma zone: Goma, Gera, Gumai, Setema, and Sigimo. The general manager and representative of the Union is Asnake Nigat.

Limu is the grade given to Fully Washed lots in this zone and grade 1 the highest quality you can source from the area. 

Kata Muguda represents and markets the coffees from Kota following the price structure below: 

Export expenses: 5%
Union commission: 5%
Payment to coop members: 70%
Cooperative expenses: 30% (of which 10% are used to invest in social projects)

The process

The washed processing of Ethiopian is relatively standardized / follows similar patterns. First cherries are pre-sorted, which means under and overripe ones, as well as foreign material, are being moved for a more homogenous cherry quality. Then the cherries are depulped mechanically and then enter a fermentation tank. The remaining mucilage which surrounds the parchments breaks down with the help of naturally occurring yeasts and bacterias within 40 - 50 hours. Afterwards, the coffee is washed a second time in a slim water funnel which simultaneously separates low from high-density beans by gravity. Then the clean, wet parchment coffee is put on drying beds under a shade, where further sorting by hand happens. As the parchment is still wet at this point, it is much easier to detect irregular or insect-damaged beans. After 24 hours the coffee is moved to the another raised drying bed under the sun to be dried to a moisture content of 12% within 7-10 days.

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