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Sidama Coffee Cooperative is well known for its production of garden coffee. Our growing areas have the ideal soil type and climatic conditions (altitude, rainfall and temperature) for the production of an extraordinary coffee. Sidama produces approximately 35,000 tons of high quality Organic Arabica beans per year on 70,000 hectares of land. Sixty percent of our beans are washed, with the remainder sun-dried. Our union strives to be genuine in its product identification, loyal to its members and customers, steadfast in its commitments, and proactive in its response to available opportunities. Coffee Production In Sidama, the garden coffee system is widely practiced.  Coffee is grown near homesteads and is planted at low densities, ranging from 1,000 to 1,800 plants per hectare.  Most garden coffee is fertilized with organic nutrients.   Harvesting Depending on altitudinal variation and rainfall distribution, the harvesting period varies from September to December.  Harvesting is mostly done by family labor.  Freshly hand-picked cherries are sorted before pulping and are sold to the primary cooperatives for wet processing. More than 30 percent of the country's washed coffee comes from the Sidama area.  Currently there are 221 pulperies in the area, 91 of which are owned by SCFCU cooperatives.   Wet Processing Fresh clean cherries arriving at pulperies are pulped and allowed to ferment naturally.  The fermented coffee is washed with clean running water, soaked in clean water and then dried to retain about 11.5 percent moisture. Dried parchments (washed and dried coffee with husks) are stored in a warehouse until delivery to the central market in Addis Ababa.  The husk is removed and the clean beans are packaged in labeled bags (60 kg / 132 lbs) for export.   Quality Control At each stage, coffee quality is ensured though an integrated quality control system.  Red cherries delivered to the washing stations are inspected.  Only those beans that meet the exacting export standards and have verified origin characteristics are allowed to be exported.   Organic Certification Twenty-five cooperative members out of 42 have been certified organic by BCS OKO-GARANTIE GMBH Germany with a potential exporting capacity of over 7,000 tons of coffee per annum. Fair Trade Labeling Organization FLO Certification Eight primary cooperatives are inscribed in FLO certification and have the potential to produce 6,875 tons of coffee per annum. UTZ KAPEH Certification Two primary cooperatives are certified by the UTZ KAPEH foundation in the Netherlands and produce 360 tons of green beans per annum.  Certification for five other cooperatives is currently underway. Auction Market Waiver Our union has obtained special permission to by-pass the auction market and sell directly to our clients. Memberships Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) Eastern African Fine Coffee Association (EAFCA) Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce (AACC) Recent International Awards World Specialty Commodities Award, Paris 2005 Rosters Guild, Specialty Coffee Association of America Award, Seattle 2005 ECafe Gold Cooperative Coffee Ethiopian Competition 2005, First Place honor in washed and unwashed Sidamo varietal class International Quality Award, The Arch of Europe, Frankfurt 2004  

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Owners and Directors ImageLizdon is owned by a couple, Lincoln & Liz Donkor. Lincoln is a retired Diplomat of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and Liz is a Garment Designer. They both are imbued with artistic and creative talents. About Lizdon (audio) Click here to play Rev. Lincoln Donkor is a Professional Translator and a Champion of Total Quality. As Managing Director and ordained Minister of God, he has brought to Lizdon the following assets: *18 years of banking, finance, project development, international business and top-level diplomacy *God factor, integrity, accountability and probity * Natural artistic and creative flair *Sophisticated dress sense *Communication and marketing skills *Language proficiency (English, French & Spanish)

LABH SINGH HARNAM SINGH (LSHS) LTD is the leading coach builder in Eastern and Central Africa for buses, coaches and other commercial vehicles. Established in 1950 in a humble way in Nairobi, Kenya, LSHS Ltd. Has steadily grown to become the leading manufacturing of quality bodies for buses, coaches and Light/Medium/Heavy duty trucks. The leadership position in the industry has been achieved through long term commitment to well designed investment programs in research and development, acquisition and application of efficient and effective production technologies and direct marketing efforts within the regions has attributed to us being the market leaders in the industry. To further enhance our ability to meet and exceed the ever growing market needs in terms of quality, superior and functional body designs, shorter delivery time and customer care and handling, LSHS Ltd has developed and relocated to a new and ultra modern body manufacturing complex situated along Mombasa road on the Mombasa -Nairobi highway opposite the Nation Newspapers Plant. Today, our customer base ranges from the leading assembly plants such as GENERAL MOTORS EAST AFRICA LIMITED (ISUZU), COOPER MOTOR CORPORATION LTD (NISSAN) AND SIMBA COLT LIMITED (MITSUBISHI). Some of our major customers are KENYA BUS SERVICES, ELDORET EXPRESS, DOLPHINE COACHES, GATEWAY COACHES (UGANDA), ONATRACOM (RWANDA), OTRACO (BURUNDI), GIFT INVESTMENTS (HARARE), and MIKE APPLE (MALAWI). Established in 1950 its longevity and sustained success speaks volumes in a bus body building industry that continuously calls for modernisation, regulatory adherences and innovation. LSHS has steadily grown to command the largest market share in the region while concurrently expanding its production capability from 20 units in 1997 to the current 80 units a month,” the business explains on its website as an indictment of its efforts over the years, and especially over the past two decades. LSHS’s leadership position in the industry has been achieved through a long-term commitment to investment programmes in design and development, the acquisition and application of efficient and effective production technologies, and direct marketing efforts within the region. The Company’s range of clientele serves as further evidence of its modern-day prominence in the market. Leading assembly plants such as General Motors EA Ltd (GMEA), Kenya Grange Vehicle Industries Ltd, Cooper Motors Company (CMC) and Simba Colt have all enjoyed the LSHS service over the years. We also build buses for fleet owners, schools, colleges, universities, PSV owners and SACCOs in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

For generations, the family cocoa farms of Ghana have produced beans of wondrous quality. Ghanaian farmers harvest the ripe cocoa pods by hand, ferment the beans between banana leaves right on the forest floor and then dry the beans in the warm African sun. To this day, European and American chocolatiers buy cocoa beans from Ghana and export them to their chocolate factories throughout the world where the famed Ghanaian beans are transformed into some of the world's most delicious and expensive chocolate.Ghana, AfricaNow, for the first time, The Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company is producing world class chocolate entirely in Ghana using beans The Financial Times calls "the finest cocoa in the world." Steven C. Wallace founded the company in February, 1991, at the age of 29 convinced that if Ghana could grow the "world's finest cocoa", it ought to be able to produce some of the world's finest chocolate. Wallace's interest in Ghana began in 1978 when, as a sixteen year-old, AFS high school foreign exchange student, he lived in the town of Sunyani located in the fertile Brong-Ahafo region of the country. His host family was a traditional Ghanaian family consisting of his host father, his three wives and twenty-one children.Omanhene Chocolate Bean CompanyOmanhene has proven itself one of the most successful and creative joint ventures between the U.S. and Ghana. We have won accolades from United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, Shirley Temple (former ambassador to Ghana) and President Jimmy Carter. We produce value-added gourmet chocolate tailored specifically to export markets resulting in enhanced foreign exchange revenues for Ghana. The sale of Omanhene chocolate results in higher revenues and consequently higher wages for both workers at the chocolate factory and for local cocoa farmers. Since cocoa is a commodity crop, farm incomes in Ghana are subject to world cocoa price fluctuations. Ghanaian cocoa farmers have previously been forced to abandon their farms when world cocoa prices stagnate.