What is arusha coffee?| How does the arusha blue mountain coffee variety taste?

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First of all, the Arabica series includes Tibica, Blue Mountain and Arusha in addition to the main varieties of Bourbon and Kent. And then there's Robusta.

Production and planting system

450000 small farmers depend on coffee (locally known as Kahawa) for their livelihood. These small plots of land covering 5 hectares account for almost 90 per cent of the country's total output, with small farmers planting an average of 0.5-2 hectares. The rest are grown by cooperatives and larger well-organized estates, such as Blackburn in Aldini.

Nationwide, there are three main coffee production systems:

1. Pure forest planting for small farmers (mainly in the south)

two。 Small farmer intercropping (banana and coffee intercropping, mainly in the north and west)

3. Manor planting (less than 10% of total output)

Coffee season

North: July-December

West: may-October

South: July-December

Coffee processing

Coffee in western Tanzania is usually dry-processed (sun-dried), while wet processing is used in other areas. Its boutique coffee is mainly wet processing.

Currently: 98% of Arabica coffee is wet-processed.

Coffee grading

Tanzania chose the British hierarchical nomenclature, which is classified according to shape, size and density. These levels include; AA,A,B,PB,C,E,F,AF,TT,UG and TEX.

Coffee yield

Its annual output is 1.15 million bags.

Appearance and flavor

Northern region:

Raw beans are grayish green, large, high density and beautiful in shape. Medium acidity, good body, pleasant aroma and sweetness.

Southern region:

Enjongbei, Rufoma, Iringa region: raw beans are dark green, thin silver skin. Moderately light acidity and body texture, good fruit flavor and rich floral aroma.

Mbeya, Sunway and Katavi: the raw beans are dark green and their silver skins are yellow. Moderately light acidity and body texture, good fruit flavor and rich floral aroma.

The western region:

Raw beans are round and high in density. Medium acidity and body feel, pleasant aroma.

Coffee trade

Mode of trade

There are two main ways to buy Tanzanian coffee. One is through the moshi coffee trading system. One is to buy directly with trade unions, cooperatives, manors and other organizations.

Coffee export

Coffee is one of Tanzania's main agricultural export crops, accounting for about 5 per cent of total exports and 24 per cent of traditional cash crops, with an average annual export income of $100m over the past 30 years (about $145 million in 2011).

According to the export data of coffee from Tanzania in the past 10 years, we can see that the export volume of Tanzania in 2018 was 1.03 million bags.

In the 2018 go 19 marketing year (MY), Tanzania exported more than 5 million bags to the United States, worth more than US $21.5 million, accounting for 13.2% of Tanzania's total coffee exports.

Export area

The first destination for Tanzanian coffee exports is Japan, accounting for 27% of total coffee exports, followed by 17% in Germany, 12% in Belgium, 10% in Italy, 6% in Morocco and 6% in the United States.

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