[2] Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the CSA, this Zone has a total population of 2151,716, of whom 1411,778 are men and 739,938 women; 152,036 or 7.44% are urban inhabitants.
[3] Southern Ethiopia, including Sidamo, Kaffa, Arsi and Harar is the original home of coffee which grows wild here in the mountain rain forests in countless varieties.
By turning rain forests into new agricultural land, the structure of the region is heavily damaged.
The rain forests that dominated the region of Kaffa earlier are reduced to only 3% of their original size, in the last 30 years 60% of the trees were lost.
Currently, some 30 cooperatives are harvesting and marketing this specialty coffee and have helped over 40,000 people to get income.