Gicherori is one of five coffee factories owned by members of the Kibugu Farmers Cooperative Society. During harvest, around 950 farmers deliver cherries daily to Gicherori At the washing station the cherries are floated in water channels & had-sorted to remove defects, de-pulped, dry-fermented overnight, washed & then spread out to dry on raised beds for 10-12 days.
region Embu
farm/farmer Kibugu Farmers Cooperative Society
altitude 1550 meters
crop 2026
cultivar SL28, SL34, Batian, Ruiru 11
process Washed
SL28 & SL4 were bred by Scott Laboratories in 1931 using various coffees from Ethiopia, Sudan & Yemen. Ruiru 11 was bred in 1985 at the Coffee Research Station in Ruiru. The aim was for a coffee plant with high resistance to coffee leaf rust & coffee berry disease. Batian, [named after the highest peak of Mt. Kenya] was bred at the Coffee Research Station for disease resistance & released in 2010.
Coffee cherries being fed into the depulper.
Deplulper in action at Gicherori.
Coffee drying on raised beds at Gicherori.
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