Ethiopian Coffee Growing Regions

These regional varieties are trademarked names with the rights owned by ethiopia.

Ethiopian coffee growing regions. Ethiopian lekempti coffee is grown in the regions of ghimbi and wollega and has a brew like that of harrar longberry varieties low acidity with a balanced body but with its own unique fruit taste. Sidama limu jima ghimbi lekempti harrar yirgacheffe. Ethiopian coffee beans that are grown in either the harar yirgacheffe or limu regions are kept apart and marketed under their regional name. Generally there are three primary coffee growing and exporting areas throughout the world and all are in the equatorial region.

Ethiopia is the land of coffee s origin and remains the source of genetic diversity needed to keep. Arabica is produced in the eastern southern and western parts of the country with altitudes ranging between l300 1800 meters. The specific areas are central and south america africa and the middle east and southeast asia. Also all regions are harvesting around october february except ghimbi february april.

All have similar altitude 1400 2200 m range and coffee varieties heirloom. The map currently displays the states of oromia snnpr southern nations nationalities and peoples region and gambella often written as gambela which comprise much of the country s land and where practically all ethiopian cherries are harvested according to trabocca. It is a wild and exotic dry processed natural arabica coffee that is grown on small farms in the oromia region formerly harrar in southern ethiopia at elevations between 1 400 meters and 2 000 meters. However the bulk of c.

It is very likely that in and around this region is where coffee had its origins.