What is the best coffee in Malawi? Malawi sun geisha coffee flavor Malawian coffee production

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Malawian coffee was introduced by Scottish missionaries in the late 19th century and was successfully grown in southern Malawi. At the beginning of the 20th century, because Malawi was a British colony, large coffee plantations were owned by colonists, but the Malawian people developed a common cooperative model, and coffee production increased greatly. Although it disintegrated with political factors, the cultivation of coffee has made great progress, reaching 7000 tons in the 1990s.

Misuku is near the Sonway River, the border river between Malawi and Tasania. The plateau hills at an altitude of 1700 to 2300 meters are the main topography, which is 320km away from Mzuzu City, a commercial and administrative town in North Malawi. Misuku hills have a large number of weathered parent rocks, rich in acid, mostly dark brown dark red clay and sandy soil, the climate is very suitable for the growth of Arabica beans.

The Mzuzu coffee growing area is an important and famous small area in the Misuku Mountain Mountains, because there is a large coffee organization called

The Muzuzu Coffee planting Union Cooperative (the Mzuzu Coffee Planters Cooperative Union), established in 2006, now has 3500 members of small coffee farmers, 20% of whom are women. This cooperative is subdivided into a combination of small cooperatives, each of which has its own independent washing farm to serve local coffee farmers. The average planting area of each member family is only 0.5 hectares, a very small land area. Although these small coffee farmers are members of various small cooperatives, they can also sell the harvested red cherry coffee fruits to local purchasers, as long as the price is attractive, which is a small supplement to the family income throughout the year.

Malawi geisha (Geisha) coffee was introduced from neighboring Ethiopia in the middle of the last century, and now it is mostly grown in the highlands of the Misuku Mountain Mountains. Coupled with the vigorous promotion and assistance of members of the largest coffee growing cooperative in Malawi, it tries its best to assist in production and marketing, so Malawi coffee can also attract the attention of global buyers, and its acidity is not as bright as Kenya. But the sweetness and aroma are more standard, especially in the sweetness of fruit aroma and finish.

Malawi is a small country in southeastern Africa and a landlocked country not near the sea. most of its coffee is grown in the northern plateau, but the yield is not large. But although it is not near the sea, it can be seen on the map that there is a very large lake to the northeast of it. It is Lake Malawi, which is also the natural boundary between Malawi and its neighbors. If the sour in Kenya is compared to the treble, the sour in Malawi feels like a mid-bass. However, in particular, although the export volume is very limited, the mode of production and marketing of its coffee is that local people set up their own production and marketing companies to be responsible for the production, processing and sale of coffee, rather than the collection and distribution of coffee led by the government in Kenya. In this independent mode of operation, the quality of coffee in Malawi has been maintained at a considerable level, so it is also one of the favorite coffees of traders.

Missouri coffee is of the best quality in Malawi and is often sold at high prices. Soft acidity, rich tropical fruit aroma, citrus and lemon acid add vitality to the coffee, is a strong tropical wild characteristics of coffee.

Malawi sun-dried geisha coffee, through the sun treatment, presents the flavor description: orange, flower, ripe fruit, orange, cantaloupe, honey plum sweetness, bright berry wine flavor, typical tropical ripe fruit aroma, bright and rich fragrance.

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