We starting featuring coffee from this cooperative since 2023, and all of us here at Vienna Coffee have been really looking forward to this year’s fresh crop Tanzania Mwika North and it does NOT disappoint! As of 2020’s harvest, this coffee has been processed using the Coffee Processing Unit (CPU or washing station) that is now operational after a decade of being unusable! The CPU brings a new level of consistency and quality control to Mwika North. Historically, farmers in the area had done all of the depulping at their homes and brought coffee in parchment to Mwika North. Now, contributing farmers can put all their energy into growing & harvesting more efficiently, ensuring that only ripe cherries are being picked and brought for processing. All of the depulping can now be done on-site at Mwika North using the CPU. By centralizing and standardizing the depulping and processing at one location rather than many, they can better control and monitor the entire process, giving us much higher consistency and quality levels from cup to cup. The other benefit to this new system of processing is that the contributing farmers can now be more quickly paid for the cherry that they are selling to Mwika North. Simply put, less time spent by each contributing farmer getting their coffee to the processing facility, results in more timely payment for that coffee.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Country/Region:  Tanzania / Kilimanjaro

Farmer/Producer: 180 farmers from the Mwika AMCOS  

Cultivar: Bourbon, Kent, and N39

Altitude: 1430-1530m

Processing: washed