Notes from the curator

The Shilanga Agricultural Marketing Cooperative and Society (ACMOS) is composed of 193 farmers from the villages of Shilanga, Shinola, Wely, Igale, and Ichesa. The co-op was founded in 1993, and for a decade, farmers would process their cherries at home and would bring coffees in parchment to the co-op. Over the years, the group has been able to improve the quality of their coffees through the use of a coffee pulper purchased in 2013 and a Penagos ecopulper in 2019. The latter reduces wastewater