A large Oromia zone that produced about 5,130 tons of coffee in the year ending 2005, alongside wheat.
Bale Zone is in the Oromia Region, covering about 63,555 km². Its economy is mainly agricultural, with coffee and wheat production, and it produced 5,130 tons of coffee in 2005, about 4.5% of Oromia's output. Its highest point, Mount Batu (4,307 m), is also the highest in Oromia.
Field notes
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Mount Batu in Bale Zone, at 4,307 m, is the highest point in Oromia.
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In the Harenna Forest on the southern side of the Bale Mountains, wild coffee is a common understory shrub in submontane forest at 1,450-1,900 m.
Elsewhere in Ethiopia
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- Bale Zone · Wikipedia
- Harenna Forest · Wikipedia