Classic Coffee
It sparkles in front of you and its name speaks for itself. It says an important thing because Duromina in Afan Ormo means “improve life, enrich it” and it happened here. Farmers in this region had everything that should bear fruit of the highest quality – very high altitude, fertile and mineral-rich soils, extremely complex varieties of coffee trees and an ideal amount of rainfall.
In 2010, one hundred local growers joined forces as part of a cooperative they named Duromina because they simply wanted to change their lives for the better. The missing link was quality control. Thanks to technical support, business consulting and access to finance (as part of the TechnoServe Coffee Initiative), farmers acquired and installed the so-called wet mill, which for the first time allowed them to process washed.
Now, cooperative farmers produce coffees of exceptional quality, achieving results even at the level of 90+. These improvements helped Duromin to produce high-quality coffee and provide the community with much better living conditions. Two years later, an international panel of professional judges chose their coffee as the best in Africa, awarding the cooperative the main prize – a cool story, a beautiful final, an even more beautiful coffee.
