A study case on coffee (Coffea arabica): Limu Coffe - IRD

During the first week of September 2009, one kg of green beans cost 30 birr in Limu
Genet, 34 birr in Jima and from 50 to 60 birr in Addis Abeba (Mercato). This concerns coffee
sold in groceries.
Price to producers and akhrabie
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Price paid to producer (birr/feresulla) Price paid to akhrabie (birr/feresulla)
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Illustration 52: Evolution of prices paid to producers for dried coffee with husk by a Genet akhrabie,
and processed coffee prices to the ECX (Genet akhrabie, 5 th September 2009)
Price and sale strategies for farmers 97
Farmer 1: He produced two 100 kg-bags in 2001 EC, one for self consumption and the
other for sale. He sold that coffee at 150 birr per feresulla. He was informed on coffee prices
through radio and newspapers, then negotiated his price with sebsabies and agreed if the
difference between this and the sebsabie propositions was less than 6 birr. But he thinks that:
“It would be better if I could sell to cooperatives but there is a communication problem. That
means there is no strong linkage between farmers and cooperatives for colleting coffee.
Cooperatives are not active, and buy a little.” (Genet farmer, 27 th June 2009)
97 This sub-section considers three different profiles of farmers I could interview in Genet and Babo towns,
respectively: a basic farmer, a model farmer and a farmer member of a service cooperative.
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