ETHIOPIA YIRGACHEFFE 2 FTO DUMERSO LOT 004 GRAINPRO

Coffee Background

This coffee is sourced from family owned farms organized around the Dumerso Cooperative located within the coffee region of Yirgacheffe in the Gedeo Zone, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia.  The Dumerso Cooperative currently has 246 members.  In 2002, the cooperative joined the Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (YCFCU), an umbrella organization established in 2002 to support a sustainable coffee supply from cooperatives in the Gedeo ethnic region of Ethiopia.  There are twenty-six other cooperatives affiliated with the YCFCU totaling more than 45,000 members.