Ethiopia Banko Taratu

Gedeb Banko Taratu, it’s is located in the southern part of Ethiopia yirgacheffe Gedeb District within the Gedio zone and is one of the highest elevated coffee-growing areas in Ethiopia with a pick altitude of 1900- 2300 meters above sea level where this coffee is grown and prepared.

The annual rainfall is between 1200mm-1599mm. The harvest period is between October -January. The variety of this coffee is Indigenous heirloom. The coffee is named after the town itself. In Banko Taratu coffee is grown near the farmers’ homes Garden and is mainly grown on a small plot of land, coffee is grown from large trees near homes. The coffee has a low overlap of 1000-1800 trees per hectare. It is grown with natural fertilizers.

Coffee is one of the very important things for the Banko Tartu community and it’s a home for many coffee farmers’ families producing, also these areas are some of the most popular and well-known growing regions in the coffee world. They also grow false bananas on the coffee farm to feed themselves and their families.

More than 300 family-owned farmlands in Banko Tartu supply coffee cherries to our processing facilities. The only way to process coffee during harvest is by handpicking, which is carried out by farmers and their respective families.