Basha Bekele recently got first place for two lots of coffee in this year's Cup of Excellence, both natural processed 74158 varieties. selling his top lot for 990USD/kg, and 700USD/kg for his other. Crop to Cup (Jindo's importer for this lot of green) worked with Basha to buy him a hand pulper, guaranteed the purchased of any coffees processed with the pulper, and worked alongside him on post-harvest processing methods.

Basha grows coffee (primarily 74158, known locally as “Walega”) in semi-forested plots on 12 hectares in addition to operating collection sites in Bombe, Shantawane, and Kokose—collecting cherry from producers growing coffee as high as 2300 masl. While cherry prices were high this year, Basha maintained a practice not seen everywhere: delivering a second payment to the 126 producers he bought cherry from once the coffee sold. Like most smallholders around Bensa, Basha exclusively produces dry processes—which includes experiments with anaerobic styles of fermentation—and practices cherry flotation before drying his coffee slowly on raised beds (with some preparations drying under shade).