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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Farmer 2: He produced three bags in 2001 EC (and ten in 2000 EC), <strong>on</strong>e for self<br />
c<strong>on</strong>sumpti<strong>on</strong> and two for sale. He sold that <strong>coffee</strong> at 150 birr per feresulla, which meant 600<br />
birr per bag. He sold <strong>on</strong>e bag of red cherries at 2 birr per kg to sebsabie for washed purpose,<br />
and <strong>on</strong>e bag of dried <strong>coffee</strong> at 9 birr per kg to sebsabie. He was informed <strong>on</strong> <strong>coffee</strong> prices by<br />
farmers who already sold their <strong>coffee</strong>, then negotiated with sebsabies. But a part of his <strong>coffee</strong><br />
was paid before harvest: he asked credit to sebsabie before picking <strong>coffee</strong>, 200 birr, and<br />
supplies him the corresp<strong>on</strong>ding quantity of <strong>coffee</strong> at daily price of transacti<strong>on</strong> during<br />
harvesting time. By this way, sebsabies catch more and more clients am<strong>on</strong>g farmers. As a<br />
strategy for sale, he claims that: “It is better if we dry and sell <strong>coffee</strong> to sebsabies because<br />
pulperies’ owners are oppressing us, exploiting us.” (Genet farmer, 28 th June 2009)<br />
Farmer 3: He produced twenty bags in 2001 EC (thirty in 2000 EC), <strong>on</strong>e for self<br />
c<strong>on</strong>sumpti<strong>on</strong> and nineteen for sale. That <strong>coffee</strong> was sold at 4 birr per kg c<strong>on</strong>cerning red<br />
cherries to Babo service cooperative and 3 birr per kg to sebsabies. Dried <strong>coffee</strong> was <strong>on</strong>ly<br />
sold to sebsabies at 180 birr per feresulla (10.6 birr per kg). He was informed <strong>on</strong> <strong>coffee</strong> prices<br />
through radio and akhrabies, and then negotiated with sebsabies while cooperative prices<br />
were fixed. He also thinks that: “There is some exploitati<strong>on</strong> from sebsabies. There is a too big<br />
difference between what akhrabies give them to buy and how many they pay for our <strong>coffee</strong>.”<br />
(Babo farmer, 2 nd July 2009)<br />
Local price formati<strong>on</strong><br />
Roughly speaking, and not as an exact rule, the richer dwellers of <strong>coffee</strong> producing<br />
woredas purchase it in groceries whereas poorer <strong>on</strong>es buy it in local markets. People also buy<br />
it directly to akhrabies. Prices decreased this way: grocery, market, akhrabie because of<br />
middle men number with the respective prices: 30, 16 and 14 birr/kg of green <strong>coffee</strong> (<strong>Limu</strong><br />
genet, 29 th August 2009).<br />
In local markets, as Genet <strong>on</strong>e, women illegal traders sell <strong>coffee</strong> at different prices<br />
according to its form (dried <strong>coffee</strong> within its husk, husk, husk + beans or beans), quality<br />
and… their needs:<br />
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