The Nano Challa Cooperative is made up of 980 producers and their coffee farms contain an unknown number of indigenous varieties brought from the forest and culled over generations. In this area, large tracts of pristine forests shade tall, spindly, and wild coffee trees. These farms respect and honor the native forest in which their coffee grows.
In 2010, producers in Ethiopia’s Jimma Region were chosen to be part of the Technoserve Coffee Initiative to receive technical assistance and financing to produce fully washed coffees. Through this program, coffee farmers in the area came together to form an official producer cooperative, Nano Challa. They purchased a wet mill with a Penagos 500 depulping machine and began producing washed coffee for the first time.
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