CULTIVATION

Shakiso is a resourceful area with very fertile land, great coffee and a flourishing mining business. Most
of the coffee trees in this area are pretty young and their varieties is usually 74410 & 74412. These two
varieties have shown the most resistance to Shakisso’s environment whilst still displaying its coffee profile. Farmers in Shakisso on average have a farm land bigger than most areas at 4 hectares on
average.

HARVEST, POST-HARVEST, PROCESSING

Our Shakiso station (Hangadhi) is named after the sub-district which our station is located in. The station took deliveries from 743 farmers in the 2024-25 harvest seasons which comes down to about 1,200,000
kilograms of cherries. To better focus on quality, this station was only assigned to do Natural Sun Dried Coffee and Fermentation Coffee. The output was indeed successful as it’s resulted in specialization to both the station manager and all other team members to produce best quality natural coffee and experiment with small details regarding processing through data collection. This specific lot was processed for 144 hours where Oxygen comes out of the fermentation barrel and carbon dioxide is added into the barrel.

About Guji Shakiso Natural

Guji is a is a zone in South-Eastern Oromia. Guji produces excellent coffee due to the land being an untouched forest for the longest of times making the land very fertile. The high altitude also adds to the quality of the coffee.