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Three hundred and ninety kilometres south of Addis Ababa, at 1,980 to 2,250 metres, sits the Kochere highland. This lot was prepared at a washing station in Hama under producer Danicho Mukere, where 2,150 smallholders deliver cherry from plots averaging 1.5 hectares — heirloom varieties growing intermingled with the 74110, 74112 and 74158 selections. Coffee here doesn't stand alone. Native zigba, behar zaf and wanza grow throughout the farms, casting shade and holding the soil. In that stable microclimate the cherry takes its time — the harvest runs October through mid-January.
