Eastern Sidama woreda that reaches into Oromia like a peninsula, with coffee grown at roughly 1,700-2,200 m.
Bensa is a woreda in the Eastern zone of Ethiopia's Sidama Region, with Daye as the zone capital. It extends into Oromia like a peninsula, with Oromia to its north and south. A cooperative union profile places Sidama coffee from the Bensa mountains to the Dale and Aleta Wendo valleys at 1,700-2,200 m, and one exporter gives the same range for Bensa itself and singles out the Bombe area within it for high-scoring specialty lots.
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Bensa woreda reaches into Oromia like a peninsula, with Oromia on its north and south sides.
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- Bensa · Wikipedia
- Sidamo (Sidama) coffee: origin page · Ethio Coffee Import and Export PLC (Ethiopian exporter)
- Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (producer profile) · Fairtrade Proof (importer cooperative profile)
- Guide to Ethiopian Green Coffee Origins · Ethio Coffee (exporter)
- Ethiopia - Subnational Administrative Boundaries (COD-AB), version 04 · UN OCHA, from the Central Statistics Agency and regional Bureaus of Finance and Economic Development