Ethiopia Banko Gotiti

Banko Gotiti is a village in the Gedeb district of Ethiopia's Gedeo Zone, where Yirgacheffe is located. The Banko Gotiti cooperative was founded in 2012, separately from the Worka cooperative, which is a larger organisation. Banko Gotiti has about 300 members, who grow a mix of heirloom Ethiopian varieties of coffee.
The Yirgacheffe region is plentiful. The thick vegetation is a product of the warm tropical climate with moderate wet and dry seasons. Most coffee is shade-grown by small producers using organic practices. The majority of Ethiopia’s farmers are smallholders and sustenance farmers, with less than 1 hectare of land apiece. Coffees are cultivated from 1600 to 2400 masl in these highlands. The multitude of micro-regions creates complex profiles depending on the washing station a particular coffee is from.
Unlike the vast majority of coffee-growing countries, the coffee plant was not introduced to Ethiopia as a cash crop through colonisation. Instead, growing, processing, and drinking coffee is part of the everyday way of life, and has been for centuries since the trees were discovered growing wild in forests and eventually cultivated for household use and commercial sale.