📍 NEW COFFEE RELEASE 📍
ETHIOPIA ALO MARS PROJECT
COMPETITION SERIES
CLASSIC WASHED
DRIED UNDER SHADE
Bergamot • Berries • Lychee • Melon • Lemongrass
Region: Alo village, Bensa, Sidama
Altitude: 2,400-2,580m
Variety: 74158
Process: Classic washed, dried under shade.
Station: Alo Main station
ALO COFFEE was established in 2020 after Tamiru Tadesse won ever first official Ethiopia Cup of excellence winner in 2021
Tamiru Tadesse is a coffee supplier who has been in the coffee business for the last eight years. He works with about 200 farmers in Delo kebele, Bensa zone of the Sidama region. He collects about 182,000 kilograms of red cherry from an estimated 80 hectares of land owned by the farmers. He was interested to have new market destinations and promote the unique flavors of Bensa coffee. “We participated in the Cup of Excellence 2021 to promote the coffee our farmers grow and to establish better market linkage and improve the farmers’ income”.
The variety is 74158, named by Jimma Agricultural Research Centre (JARC), and introduced to Ethiopia in 1971 as a movement to test and select coffee trees that have good disease resistance for farmers to grow. The number signifies: 74 (years that the coffee seeds were collected) and 158 (varietal number).