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This is the road to Alaka in Hambela
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The Hambela Estate
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The final preparations for this years harvest is getting done.
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Everything is packed away neatly and ready for harvest
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Everything is packed away neatly and ready for harvest
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Here in the beginning of december 2017 and all cherries are still green
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Here in the beginning of december 2017 and all cherries are still green. Normally harvest would have started 2 weeks earlier.
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Here in the beginning of december 2017 and all cherries are still green. Here is the forst sign that finally harvest is getting closer.
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Here Aman is explaining why he chose this piece of land and how lucky he feels that they get to cultivate it.
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The nursery at Hambela
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The nursery at Hambela
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Aman enjoying the view
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Beautiful coffee forest here
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This year a new Penagos machine is installed. This will double their production at Hambela
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This is Dellnesaw who is managing the Hambela estate
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This is the very first ripe cherries we saw in Guji
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Here we are on the road to Benti Nenqa. The coffee here grows all the way up to 2400 masl!
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A new warehouse is being build just outside Benti Nenqa. Here they will focus on producing the best possible natural coffees
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This is Tariku Amans younger brother.
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Here we have Etassu and Aman. Etassu is a lead farmer in Bente Nenqa. He is in charge of training 40 farmers. What an Enthusiastic guy.
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This is where the road ended on our way to see the new washing station that is getting build around the small village Buku.
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The scenery here is just beautiful
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The scenery here is just beautiful
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This it the new washing station at Buku. Earlier all coffee had to travel hours to the Hambela Estate to get processed. Now both Naturals and Washed coffee from Buku will be processed on site. We can't wait to taste how this will increase the cup quality
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Dellnesaw
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In the front we have one of the lead farmers of Buku. He will be in charge of training 40 farmers to increase quality
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Loads of drying tables are getting build
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Loads of drying tables are getting build
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The scenery here is just beautiful
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Peter is trying to see if he can spot some impurities in the water supply
