The JRC can not meet the rapidly growing demand improved coffee varieties in the country as described Negusie et al., (2008). To circumvent the shortage planting materials, the informal coffee seed system is also practiced by the varied private and public coffee farms in the major coffee producing regions of the country. This includes production of uncertified coffee seeds from the released and adaptable coffee varieties by small-scale farmers, private investors and state coffee farms, who produce and use for themselves, on top of transferring to other users in their vicinities. Among others, the big coffee state farms, namely, Limmu, Teppi and Bebeka of the coffee plantation development enterprise (CPDE) had produced and supplied a total of 59,287 kg of coffee seeds to different users between 1997 and 2000. They depend on the improved CBD resistant selections initially obtained from the JRC. Likewise, the recently established modern private coffee farm of Medroc Ethiopia, the Gemadro coffee farm of Agi- ceft Ethiopia, has also played a significant role in the production and supply of coffee seeds from the selected CBD resistant varieties (Table 1). The production from these large coffee farms is also augmented by the relatively smaller quantities of CBD resistant coffee seeds (1,000 to 2,000 kg) produced and supplied by some private coffee farms of smaller scales found in the southwestern parts of Ethiopia. The whole informal coffee seed sources prepare improved coffee seeds as per the requests they receive from the users ahead of time. This could be the main reason for the variations in the amount of coffee seeds distributed over crop years.