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Koileki
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The Koileki wet mill serves as a central hub for processing the cherry of the producers we work with across the Ermera municipality. It has served not only as a place to purchase, process, and dry cherry, but as a meeting point for the village chiefs and neighbourhood leaders, and Raw Material. Expanding the reach of specialty coffee as a viable option for profitable returns includes the importance of training.
Laclo
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Laclo is the name of one of the main coffee producing villages (or sucos in Tetun), that provide cherry to the Raimutin wet mill. The village’s coffee land sits between 1200-1600 MASL, where between 80 and 150 coffee producing families are selling to the washing station at any given time during the harvest season. The village itself has four sub villages, and a total household figure of almost 500 families.
Lauana
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Malabe
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The Malabe wet mill serves as a central hub for processing the cherry of the producers we work with in the suco of Malabe and other neighbouring remote villages. Sitting at 1300 MASL, the wet mill has served not only as a place to purchase, process, and dry cherry, but as a meeting point for the village chiefs and neighbourhood leaders, and Raw Material. Expanding the reach of specialty coffee as a viable option for profitable returns includes the importance of training.
Mota Bandeira
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Mota Bandeira is the name of a popular waterfall in Timor-Leste near to the Raimutin Wet Mill, and one of the country's main tourist destinations. Forest-grown, the Mota Bandeira lots are fully shade grown in the wild forest lands of the Ermera Region. These trees have never been affected by fertilisers, chemical additions, and as such are organic by default.
Parami
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Raimutin
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Our first custom wet mill and processing centre in Timor Leste was built in April 2018, in Atsabe, Ermera. All designed in-house, this processing centre uses gravity to move coffee through the stages; no double handling, no unnecessary machinery. We drew upon our experience working in many other coffee-producing countries to combine elements that would most likely improve Ermera’s coffee quality given the unique set of challenges facing the region. Each section of the plan uses materials that are local and readily available.
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