The Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union in Ethiopia invested 50 million Birr to build its first coffee roasting and packaging complex

The Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union invested 50 million Br to build its first coffee roasting and packaging complex at Gelan town in Oromia Regional State. The plant, covering 2,307Sqm of land, will aid the Union by adding value to coffee products and is the first of its kind for the Union that has been exporting green coffee beans for two decades. The plant will roast, grind and package the coffee for local use. It has a capacity of roasting, grinding and packaging 120Kg of coffee an hour.