COFFEE PRODUCTION, QUALITY AND MARKETING IN WEST GUJI ZONES, SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA
Journal: International Journal of Research Publications
Year: 2023

Coffee is one of perennial mild stimulant tropical cash crop, indigenous to Ethiopia which belongs to genus Coffea, in family Rubiaceae. It is widely used as beverage and has stimulating effect derived from the alkaloid caffeine .Coffee is the major cash crop of the Zone, which is produced in the eight woredas namely,Bulehora. Abaya, Kerch, Galana, Malka Sodda, Dugda Dawa, B/Konjowa, H/Wamana which serves as a major means of cash income for the livelihood of coffee farming families (GZARDO, 2019