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

washed coffee gets only tested on its moisture content. Then coffee bags are packed with wire
and lead sinkers stamped by pincers attesting the coffee origin: In Limu Kosa, these sinkers
are “Limu” stamped. Even the number of the local quality station is stamped on the sinker
(here number 5, for Limu Genet station). Traceability is ensured. All bags of the truck are not
packed with these sinkers but eleven bags per truck are. Then a clearance paper (description
paper) is filled: date, station, owner of coffee, area of production (kebele), owner and place of
processing plant (pulpery, hullery), number of trucks (immatriculation) , quantity of coffee
(kg, number of bags), washed or unwashed coffee, number of sinkers 83
. This paper will be
presented to the EC ex arrival coffee sampling room. From woredas to this sampling room,
bags travelled on trucks: 85 kg for unwashed coffee bags, 60 kg for washed coffee bags. At
this moment of the quality chain, the grade has not been given yet. It will be in Addis Abeba,
then the result will be communicated to WARDO then quarantine place.
Then the coffee travels up to Addis Abeba and, concerning Limu Kosa coffee, met
successively the following check points: Limu Genet, Ambuye, Babo, Jima, Gibe valley
(before Welkite), and then Karra-Koree (Addis entrance). Each time only the former
document delivered by quarantine place has to be presented.
Illustration 38: Limu Kosa Quarantine place 1) sorting defects 2) clearance paper 3)4)5) Limu Kosa
station pincers and sinkers 6) akhrabies’ book (Bossolasco, 6 th July 2009)
83 Traceability is ensured. Moreover, the quarantine place officer keeps a descriptive book of each chagn: date
and coffee type of each collect, sales to central market. In <strong>case</strong> of black marketers arrested at the different
woredas’ boundaries (Genet, Ambuye and Babo in Limu Kosa), the quarantine place officer is called to clarify
the situation identifying the coffee and its owner.
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