YCFCU

Organisation type: Yirgacheffee Coffee Farmers Cooperatives Union	Annual production: 39,000 Tons.
Annual export: 3,450 Tons	Coffee type: Arabica 1300-3000 meters
Country: Ethiopia	Address: Debre Zeit Road, Close to St.Joseph Church ZAK Building 2nd Floor, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Phone: +251(0) 114 43 17 74, +251(0) 463 31 26 71, Cell Phone: + 251 (0) 911 21 04 68	Fax: +251 (0) 114 40 25 33, +251 (0) 463 31 13 30
General Manager: Takele Mammo Deyasso	Website: http://www.yirgacheffee-coffee.com, Email: yirgacheffe@ethionet.et

YCFCU

Participates in Progreso Program since 2009. Progreso has been working with this cooperative in the area of Access to Market and Technical Assistance.

YCFCU is the secondary organization, established in June 2002, in Gedeo Zone. YCFCU embodies 22 member Coops having 43,794 member farmers.  The famous “Yirgacheffe type” is the most favorite coffee to which most of the consumers in the world pay special attention. A unique and long age tradition of the people to maintain indigenous trees and its surprising inter-crop agricultural practice has helped the preservation of the environment. The people are fully proud of their organically managed under shade coffee.