Kucha (QUCA in the local language) is part of a region known for hilly and undulating midland and upper lowland terrain; due to terrain and weather patterns, less than one in five households is food secure.
Food crops include maize, enset, sweet potatoes, taro, teff, and yams; income sources include butter, peanut, beans and selling firewood.
[2] Although this woreda was in existence before the incorporation of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, its current area dates from 1996.
That year the lowlands of the neighboring Dera-Malo woreda were joined to Kucha, and the highlands of that woreda joined to Dita, becoming Dita Dermalo.
The majority of the inhabitants were Protestants, with 49.83% of the population reporting that belief, 45.73% practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity,3.36% catholics and 1.08% practiced traditional beliefs.