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Murang'A Kenya October to December is the main season

Published: 2024-09-17 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/09/17, Professional coffee knowledge exchange More coffee bean information, please pay attention to coffee workshop (Weixin Official Accounts cafe_style) Kenya MULANGA (Mu Rangtu) MULANGA: There are about 100,000 coffee farmers in this area belonging to Central Province. This inland region was chosen by the first missionaries to settle because Portugal forbade them to live on the coast

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Kenya MURANG'A (Mu Zentu)

MURANG'A: there are about 100000 coffee farmers in this district of the central province. This inland producing area was the place of settlement chosen by the first missionaries because Portugal banned them from living in coastal areas. This is also another German producing area that benefits from volcanic soil, with more small coffee farmers than manors.

Altitude: 1350 to 1950 m

Harvest time: October? December (main production season), June? August (by-product season)

Varieties: SL-28, SL-34, Ruiru11, Batian

Brief introduction of producing area

Mulanka producing area is located in the foothills of Kenya (Mount Kenya), close to the Nyeri producing area. The fertile volcanic soil (volcanic loam) of Mount Kenya provides sufficient nutrients for coffee growth. There are two rainy seasons in this area every year, and the typical rainfall occurs in March-April and November-December respectively. The annual precipitation is abundant, and the coffee trees hardly need artificial irrigation. There are two harvest seasons in the producing area, the main harvest season (Main Harvest) from April to June and the secondary harvest season (Fly Crop) from October to December.

There are several coffee processing plants in the Mulanka producing area, and in principle, coffee farmers can choose nearby. Because of the way raw beans are sold in Kenya, coffee processing plants that can sell high prices tend to be more popular with farmers. The Tangkashi processing plant is one of the processing plants owned by the Iyego Coffee Growers Cooperative Society, which is mainly responsible for processing coffee from nearby small family farms.

The AA level represents the size of raw bean particles, which is a 17-18 screen and has strict control over defective beans. The AB level represents that raw bean granules are suitable for sieve 15-16, and 10% of beans under 15 mesh are allowed.

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