About this coffee

Fahem General Trading PLC (FGTPLC) is a company owned by Managing Director Mr. Mohammed Lalo. To enhance the export business the company established a washed coffee pulping station at Checka. It has also organised 754 out grower farmers that are distributed across the districts namely Atnago farmers group. The sites are situated at altitude range of 1755-2010 masl. The site is located in the production belt of Oromia, at Atnago/Limmu Seka district, Jimma zone, Oromia Regional State.

The company is committed to social responsibility affairs and supports the community in seedling raising and distribution, providing strong field technical support for out growers in agronomic aspects of coffee, grain mill establishment (two mills were established), school block building and the construction of kindergarten.

Coffee is grown here under shade trees. The cultural practices employed on the farm includes pruning,weeding , fertilisation (90% organic and 10% in organic fertiliser of NPS). Harvesting of coffee is carried out in two methods depending to type of processing. For sun dried, the matured cherry indiscriminately harvested by separating ground and tree cherry. While for washed coffee processing careful selection or picking of red cherries by hand is practised for best quality coffee.

The dried parchment coffee from farm store is despatched to Addis Ababa, Horizon plantaion PLC (Coffee Processing and warehousing). The coffee is received at Coffee Processing and Warehousing where it is dehusked, graded and packed. The dry mill has a capacity of accommodating 48,000 tons of green bean. The coffee is shipped to Djibouti.