How does Malawian coffee taste? What's the difference between Malawi and Kenya? Introduction to manors in Malawi

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Malawi, the official full name of the Republic of Malawi (Zichewa: Dziko la Mala?i; English: Republic of Malawi) is a landlocked country located in southeastern Africa, bordering Zambia, Mozambique and Tanzania. The correct position is 9 °45 & # 39 south latitude to 17 °16 & # 39; east longitude 32 °35 & # 39 min 35 °24 & # 39; The capital, Li Longwei, is located in the central part of Malawi.

Malawi is a landlocked country, the whole region is long and narrow in the north-south direction, high and dry, coffee production should grow in the highlands of the south. Malawi and planting are quite high above sea level, between 90-1200 meters, with a cool climate and good quality.

Malawian coffee takes "AA" as the highest grade. Some farms produce high-quality coffee beans, which are favored by selected coffee producers and are listed for sale in the name of the farm.

Malawi AA is washed, coffee is rich in oil, mixed with a variety of flavors, with caramel, cream, nutty herbs cool, spices, sweet chocolate and raisins, rum aroma, in the coffee temperature, the soft berry acid is active again, you will feel it when you taste it carefully.

Compared with Kenya, Malawi coffee also has a considerable degree of sweetness and aroma, while the sour taste is a lower style. If the sour in Kenya is compared to the treble, the sour in Malawi feels like a mid-bass.

Around the 1870s, missionaries brought Arabica coffee trees to Malawi, and commercially grown coffee soon took root in the mountains of Cholo and Mulanje. Smallholder farming became popular in Malawi at that time, with each coffee farmer planting about 200 coffee trees and controlling the picking and quality of coffee beans.

Shelling and treatment were very important in the age of small farmers, and in 1946, Malawi had its own national "cooperative". Coffee production in Malawi has plummeted due to leaf rust, and coffee cultivation has cast a veil over the country. Perhaps farmers are not willing to drink without coffee, or it may be caused by a unique geographical environment, and coffee eventually grew up in Malawi. Today, Malawi, like most other producing areas in the world, is divided into two planting patterns, one for manors and the other for small farmers. The manor is planted in the southern part of Malawi, "Cholo, Mount Mulanje, Sumba, Mangoche".

The investment of the manor is high, and the natural output is also high, but the quality of coffee beans is not so good compared with small farmers. First, because coffee is not the main agricultural product of the manor, the status of tea and tobacco is higher than coffee; second, because of the elevation, most of the elevations of coffee estates are distributed between 900 and 1200m. In Malawi, there are five cooperatives composed of small farmers in the northern part of Malawi: Misuku Cooperative, Phoka Cooperative, Viphya North Cooperative, Nkhatabay Higlands Cooperative, Southeast Mzimab Cooperative and Ntchisi East Cooperative in the Central region.