METAD grows and processes green Arabica coffee for export to specialty importers/roasters in North America, Europe and Asia. The company is a third generation family- owned business, currently led by Aman Adinew who also was one of the founding Executives and COO of the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange. The soils in the southern and western parts of the coffee- growing regions of Ethiopia are of the volcanic origin, with a high nutrient- holding capacity of clay materials..