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Alaka Korchema

Ethiopia - Guji - Hambella - Alaka - Q1 - Natural - Bio

CROP 2025/2026 See coffee details

SCA score86.5

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History and traceability

The story

Aman Adinew founded Metad in 2010, and coffee production began three years later. His brother, Tariku Adinew, joined the company shortly thereafter. In Hambela, Metad owns a 200-hectare farm located in the Hambela Wamena woreda—specifically within the Alaka and Bishan Fugu kebeles.

The farming system used on these plots follows the Ethiopian semi-forest model, which we at Belco champion under the (Forest Coffee) brand. The landscape is rich in natural forest, featuring indigenous species typical of mature forests, such as the qararo.

The farm is organized into distinct plots, each planted with a single coffee variety. Cultivated varieties include 75227, 74112, 74110, and 74140. The farm is managed using organic practices, and all coffee cherries are hand-picked.

Drying takes place on African drying beds. The high altitude (over 2,000 meters) and the orientation of the processing station provide optimal drying conditions, with the process typically lasting between three and four weeks.

Belco and Metad have been collaborating since 2018, united by a shared vision of quality, environmental responsibility, and respect for everyone involved throughout the value chain.

Here are a few words from Tariku Adinew:

"At METAD, our goal is to make our community happier and healthier. We take pride in implementing ethical and socially responsible practices across our entire company.

A portion of our profits is consistently reinvested in the community through the construction of clinics, roads, and wells for access to clean drinking water, among other initiatives." We have adopted a local primary school, providing over 850 students with essential supplies and financial support.

We also award university scholarships to 105 underprivileged students in our region.

Furthermore, we have partnered with Grounds-for-Health, a US-based NGO that works with coffee-growing communities to eradicate cervical cancer among women.

Today, women make up more than 70% of METAD’s agricultural workforce.”

The Metad company was founded through the impetus of a family long involved in coffee, as the grandparents of founder Aman Adinew were already coffee producers and traders. Before Metad, Aman Adinew was president of ECX (Ethiopia Commodity Exchange).

Metad was founded in 2014 to meet the specialty coffee market's expectations regarding traceability, quality, sustainability, and fair remuneration for producers.

He founded Metad with family members, American citizens who, like him, chose to return to their home country, driven by a desire to develop high-performing, quality operations. Aware of the shortcomings that could affect the Ethiopian coffee sector, they chose to promote outstanding coffees by focusing on traceability, which ensures superior value for the crops from their region. Today, Metad is among the pioneers in developing a structured specialty coffee value chain in Ethiopia.

The coffees handled by Metad are rigorously traced at every stage of the process. Lots are primarily received in parchment and undergo several mechanical sorting steps, each removing a specific type of defect, before a final Hand Sorting. This attention to processing and quality control significantly contributes to the final quality of the coffees.

Metad supports social and environmental projects whose local roots ensure their success. For coffee producers, Metad implements regular training and pre-payments for harvests, which provide these farmers with greater stability. The group has also already distributed over 600,000 coffee seedlings to the farmers they work with.

More broadly, Metad has, for example, helped construct roads. They have also funded the establishment of primary schools, covering all expenses (materials, teachers' salaries, etc.) for 800 students. They provide scholarships for 105 disadvantaged students in the Gedeo zone. Metad also implements specific support projects for women in producer communities, particularly in disease prevention and screening.