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How about AA Coffee from Isani Cooperative, Sengui District, Tanzania? comparison between Tanzania and Kenya

Published: 2024-09-19 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/09/19, The national Tanzania production area Songwe is about 1700 meters above sea level and the washed variety Kent, Bourbon flavor orange peel, sweet orange, fragrant cream and maple syrup, almond cocoa, taste thick, sour soft and round, sweet and full, fragrant wheat bread and malt biscuit finish. Tanzania is a country with a rich coffee history and a large area of coffee cultivation.

Country Tanzania

Production area Songwe

About 1700 meters above sea level

Treatment mode washing

Variety Kent, bourbon

Flavor orange peel, sweet orange, fragrant cream and maple syrup, almond cocoa, taste thick, acidity soft and round, sweet and full, fragrant wheat bread and malt biscuit finish.

Tanzania is a country with a rich coffee history and a vast coffee growing area. The main producing areas are Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru. They are two volcanoes with very fertile soil. The coffee system and flavor are similar to those of Kenya. And coffee is the main cash crop in the country, 70% of which is Arabica beans, growing in northeastern Tanzania, and 30% Robusta. Mainly in the northwest near Luanda and Uganda's Kagera Kagera producing areas. Raw beans in Tanzania are mainly washed and graded in the same way as in Kenya, according to the size and flavor of beans. The order of particle size is AA, AB and PB,AA 17 and 18 mesh, AB 15 and 16 mesh, PB is PEABERRIES. The flavor grade of TOP, PLUS, FAQ,FAQ- "Fair to Average Quality" will have some slight defective beans, but it will not affect the flavor.

Insani is a cooperative made up of 93 farmers who are in charge of agricultural marketing cooperatives. Their chairman is Bingson Mwasile.

The group was founded in 2001, but the cooperative was only completed in 2016. The cooperative is located in the north of Songwe Mbozi, west of Mbeya, Tanzania. It is close to the Nangoza River, and it is easy to use water sources for post-treatment. The supervisor here, Bahati Nzowa, works with cooperative members to ensure the quality of their production.

The main planting season in southern Tanzania is from the end of May to July, and coffee trees bloom between September and October.

Coffee cherries come from 20 small farmers who sift them by hand to make sure they are ripe and send them to CPU.

Immature and overripe cherries will be taken home by farmers for household processing and will be sold locally or consumed by farmers themselves.

The infrastructure in much of southern Tanzania is very simple, while in Insani, they have fairly good facilities. They are processing on Penagos 500 eco pulper, pulping 1 ton every 1.5 hours. Cherries are pulped and slime removed, so they do not need to be fermented. The floating beans are screened and graded in a classifier and then dried in an African viaduct.

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