
Empowering farmers for speciality coffee
Mr. Rikiba Nocha and Ms. Shitu Shimelis are one of our farmers in Daye Bensa. The couple have 10 years of farming experience. The past 8 years, the couple were selling their coffee at the market. They heard about Daye Bensa’s out growers association two years ago and Rikiba reflected on how joining the union has been for him and his family, “Before joining Daye Bensa, I was doing trial and error because I never had a training on coffee farming so among many of my coffee trees