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Ethiopia Duromina

The Duromina Cooperative and its 320 members cultivate coffee in small plots near their homes and deliver their harvest to a centralized processing site to be slowly dried on raised beds and then hand-sorted. The level of care at every step in the process produces a consistently delicious cup—year after year. A complex cup layered with notes of juicy peach, candied grapefruit, and black tea. In 2010, coffee producers in Jimma—a city in southwestern Oromia Region, Ethiopia—were selected by the Technoserve Coffee Initiative to receive technical assistance and financing to produce fully washed coffees. Through the program, coffee farmers came together to form several official producer cooperatives, one of which is Duromina, which means “improve their lives” in the Afan Oromo language. Improve, they have. The Duromina Cooperative and its 320 members cultivate coffee in small plots near their homes and deliver their harvest to a centralized processing site to be slowly dried on raised beds and then hand-sorted for quality. And in addition to agronomy training, processing facilities, and market access, the Duromina Cooperative also gives back to the local community.