A study case on coffee (Coffea arabica): Limu Coffe - IRD
A study case on coffee (Coffea arabica): Limu Coffe - IRD
A study case on coffee (Coffea arabica): Limu Coffe - IRD
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6.2.3) Technoserv interventi<strong>on</strong> and service cooperatives<br />
<strong>Limu</strong> Kosa woreda service cooperatives are not so influencing <strong>coffee</strong> farmers, except<br />
Babo and Ambuye <strong>on</strong>es. In this way, initiatives lead by the new <strong>Limu</strong> Inara uni<strong>on</strong> and<br />
Technoserv try to change it.<br />
Name of<br />
cooperatives<br />
Male headed<br />
households<br />
Female<br />
headed<br />
households<br />
Total<br />
Number of<br />
farmers’<br />
associati<strong>on</strong><br />
it holds<br />
Establishment<br />
year EC<br />
Baabbuu 1333 57 1390 3 1990<br />
Tenchoo 350 10 260 1 1996<br />
Shogellee 713 41 754 3 1996<br />
Waleensuu 500 18 518 1 1996<br />
Cimmee 600 20 620 3 1996<br />
Suntu 625 19 644 1 1998<br />
Dabbello 860 19 874 3 1998<br />
Wabee<br />
Koticha<br />
365 7 372 1 1996<br />
Harrawwa<br />
Jimante<br />
1450 83 1533 3 1996<br />
Walakke<br />
Somboo<br />
400 20 420 1 1998<br />
Nix Gunduu 550 12 562 2 1995<br />
Ambuyyee 1450 28 1478 5 1996<br />
Harrawwa<br />
Gatira<br />
150 150 1 2000<br />
Total 9346 334 9680<br />
Table 21: <strong>Limu</strong> Kosa service cooperatives (Genet WARDO cooperatives office, 3 rd July 2009)<br />
Technoserv is an organizati<strong>on</strong> implied in <strong>coffee</strong> producti<strong>on</strong> of different east African<br />
countries since forty years, and currently funded by Bill Gates Corporati<strong>on</strong>. Its workers are<br />
both business and technical advisers allowing guarantee funds to smallholders through bank<br />
loans 92<br />
, and linking them with export markets. Farmers sell their <strong>coffee</strong> to pulperies; then<br />
up<strong>on</strong> quality, it will be exported to United States laboratories and market. The organizati<strong>on</strong> is<br />
currently implied in the establishment of twenty pulperies across south western Ethiopia in<br />
Jima, Ilubabor and Wellega z<strong>on</strong>es, and of which four are located in <strong>Limu</strong> Kosa and two in<br />
<strong>Limu</strong> Seka woredas. The project includes three phases of four/four/three years, and is now<br />
beginning the first <strong>on</strong>e (Technoserv worker, 27 th August 2009).<br />
92 The Commercial Bank is the major rural bank, and has expanded since liberalisati<strong>on</strong>. It generally provides<br />
credit through the service cooperatives. Some communities have experienced serious problems of indebtedness,<br />
following the collapse of prices in 2000 (Save the Children UK, 2003).<br />
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