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EAFCA MEMBERS IN TANZANIA
| Antippi
and Kahawa Estates Coffee Producer |
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| Address: | Boro and Kirima, Kibosho P. O. Box 377 Moshi, Tanzania |
| Contact: | Telephone: +255 744 494106 Fax : +255 27 2753621 E-mail: Dhiru Chauhan |
| Locality: | Moshi Rural District |
| Altitude: | Respectively 1400 and 1100 metres |
| Total land area: | 237 acres |
| Area under coffee: | 137 acres (47 + 85) acres |
| Type of coffee: | Mild Washed Arabica |
| Annual production: | 18 metric tons |
| Lying at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, Antippi and Kahawa Estates were established in 1920 by European Settlers who managed them until 1950. The Estates were nationalized in 1971/72 and have been operated by the current managers since 2000. | |
Association Of Kilimanjaro
Specialty Coffee Growers (AKSCG) Coffee production, finance & marketing |
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| Address: | Kahawa House. Room 304 P. O. Box 7627 Moshi, Tanzania |
| Contact: | Telephone/Fax: +255 27 2754851 E-mail: Executive Director |
| Locality: | Kilimanjaro, Matengo Highlands (Mbinga) & Mbeya Chapter |
| Altitude: | 1300 to 1900 metres |
| Total land area: | n/a |
| Area under coffee: | n/a |
| Type of coffee: | Mild Washed Arabica |
| Annual production: | 1,000 metric tons |
| Comprised of Tanzania’s
most progressive smallholder farmers, the Association of
Kilimanjaro Specialty Coffee Growers (AKSCG) is proud to
deliver the finest coffee that Tanzania has to offer. AKSCG
coffees originate in the country’s highland regions
around Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain,
and in the Mount Livingstone Ranges in the south west, near
Lake Nyasa. The Association currently represents 62 farmer-businesses, each committed to producing high-quality coffee for the specialty market. Around 6,000 farmers sell their coffee through the Association, which consistently wins high prices for its members. In the 2002/3 season, Southern Highlands members sold coffee at prices on average 66% higher than non-members in the region, while northern groups’ prices were on average 40% higher. |
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Burka Coffee
Estates Limited Coffee Producer |
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| Address: | Dodoma Road P. O. Box 90 Arusha, Tanzania |
| Contact: | Telephone: +255 27 250 8215 Fax: +255 27 250 9507 E-mail: Alex Rechsteiner |
| Locality: | Arusha, Northern Tanzania |
| Altitude: | 1400 metres |
| Total land area: | + 3000 acres |
| Area under coffee: | + 1500 acres |
| Type of coffee: | Mild Washed Arabica |
| Annual production: | 1000 metric tons clean coffee |
| Burka Coffee Estate was established in 1899 by German Settlers and has since continued to be a coffee producing farm. | |
Finca
Estate Coffee Growers |
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| Address: | P. O. Box 14703 Arusha, Tanzania |
| Contact: | Telephone: +255 27 2553646 Fax: +255 27 2508246 Mobile: + 255 744 261461 E-mail: Fatima Aziz Faraji |
| Locality: | 18 km East of Arusha town north of Tanzania, towards Kilimanjaro International Airport |
| Altitude: | 1300 metres |
| Total land area: | 20 acres |
| Area under coffee: | 17 acres |
| Varieties of coffee: | Kent and some Bourbon |
| Type of coffee: | Mild Washed Arabica |
| Annual production: | Up to 10 tons |
| Finca Estate, a family farm, on the slopes of Mount Meru, some 70 kms to the west of Mount Kilimanjaro, is part of an old German Trappe family farm measuring 32 acres suitable for agriculture. The farm has its own processing facilities and only fully red ripe cherries of coffee are picked and pulped on the same day to preserve the inherent good quality. Replanting to replace mostly 40 years old coffee is ongoing. | |
Liborius Gehrken (A) Limited |
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| Address: | Blackburn Estate, Oldeani P. O. Box 222 Karatu, Tanzania |
| Contact: | Telephone: +255 744 699 496, +255 744 476
744 Fax: +873 761 612 939 E-mail: Michael Gehrken |
| Locality: | West of Oldeani (Karatu District) |
| Altitude: | 1700 - 1900 Metres |
| Total land area: | 2300 acres |
| Area under coffee: | 259 acres |
| Varieties of coffee: | Kent, Nyassa, KP432, Bourbon |
| Type of coffee: | Mild Washed Arabica |
| Annual production: | 88 tons |
| Planted in 1931, 1939-45 under English Administration and between 1946-63 managed by E. Ching, Blackburn Estate has been in the hands of Gehrken Famliy since1963. Mainly none tilling, no insecticide spray, but only fungicide spray, coffee grows almost wild (organic). Mulching is practiced extensively and processing is by wet method whereby coffee is pulped, fermented, washed and then sun dried. | |
Mondul Coffee Estate |
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| Address: | Old Mondul Road P. O. Box 667 Arusha, Tanzania |
| Contact: | Telephone: +255 27 2538153/4 E-mail: Ruggero Davico |
| Locality: | Arusha Region, Northern Tanzania |
| Altitude: | 1700 metres |
| Total land area: | 1200 acres |
| Area under coffee: | 300 acres |
| Varieties of coffee: | N39 (Bourbon) and Kent |
| Type of coffee: | Mild Washed Arabica |
| Annual production: | 180 metric tons |
Mondul Coffee Estate was established
in 1931 by Count Vittorio Davico. His two sons are now
running the Estate and pride themselves in producing the
finest washed arabica coffee in Tanzania. Mondul Coffee
Estate holds the Tanzania Coffee Assocation Quality Award
for the 1998/99 and 2000/01 seasons. In March 2002 EAFCA
awarded the Estate the Certificate of Recognition for presenting "qualifying
fine coffee" at the EAFCA Cupping Competition 2002
held in Kampala. |
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M'ringa Estates
Limited Coffee Producer and Registered Seed Exporter |
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| Address: | P. O. Box 34 Arusha, Tanzania |
| Contact: | Tel: +255 27 250 5509, +255 27 250 6341 E-Mail: Donough Mahon |
| Locality: | 10 km west of Arusha, Northern Tanzania |
| Altitude: | 1400 to 1450 meters (4650 to 4800 feet) |
| Average rainfall: | 800 mm per annum |
| Soils: | Volcanic |
| Total land area: | |
| Area under coffee: | 150 ha |
| Varieties of coffee: | Mostly Kent and Bourbon |
| Type of coffee: | Mild Washed Arabica |
| Annual production: | 150 – 200 tons of Green Coffee |
The estate is situated near
Arusha on the south west slopes of Mt. Meru (4,566mts),
a dormant volcano in Northern Tanzania. The farm is located
70 km from Africa’s highest point - Mt. Kilimanjaro
(5,896mts). Founded in 1930, M’ringa has been owned
and managed by members of the same family. The Grandfather
of the family, E. L. Mahon, began planting coffee in Coorg,
Southern India, in 1880 and was the General Manager of
Matheson’s Coffee, which later became Consolidated
Coffee Ltd and today is the well-known Tata Coffee Ltd.
This family tradition of working with coffee has been maintained
and M’ringa for many years has been known for its
excellent quality coffee. |
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Msumbi Coffee Estate Ltd
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| Address: | TFA Shopping Complex P. O. Box 15066 Arusha, Tanzania |
| Contact: | Tel: +255 27 2508022 Mobile: +255 754 789 603 Fax: +255 27 2508 022 E-mail: kusserow@habari.co.tz |
| Locality: | Southern Highlands - Mbozi |
| Altitude: | 1600 metres |
| Total land area: | 500 acres |
| Area under coffee: | 140 acres |
| Varieties of coffee: | Bourbon N 5, N 39 |
| Type of coffee: | Mild Washed Arabica |
| Annual production: | First ‘real’ crop in 2004 |
Msumbi Estate is located between
latitude 9 02’ and 9 04’ south of the Equator
and between Longitude 32 53’ and 32 54’ East
of the Greenwich meridian. The Estate lies near to the
Zambia-Tanzania Highway in Igamba Ward in Mbozi District.
Driving distance from the Estate to Mlowo and Vwawa is
each 15 km and 80 km to Mbeya Municipal. The Estate lies
within an altitude of 1600 meters above sea level resulting
in strictly hard bean - premium quality. The Estate lies
on a flat plane, with Mimba stream on the west, to the
east Mkera Stream and Msumbi Stream and Nyombe Stream in
the south. The annual rainfall amounts to an average of
1680 mm distributed over 6 month from November to April,
followed by very dry weather from May to October, which
is the harvesting period. The coldest months are July – August,
with cold winds and temperatures below 10 degrees. |
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| Address: | P.O. Box 221 Karatu, Tanzania |
| Contact: | Cell +255 744 260069 Email: office@ngila.com or: ngila@amosconnect.com |
| Locality: | The estate is situated in Karatu District on the slopes of the Ngorongoro Crater. |
| Altitude: | 1600m |
| Average rainfall: | 800 mm |
| Soil: | Volcanic |
| Area under coffee: | 100ha |
| Type of coffee: | Mild washed Arabica |
| Varieties of coffee: | Mostly Bourbon |
| Annual production: | 100 mt clean coffee |
| Founded in the beginning of the twenties century by a German family, the farm has been taken over by British farmers after the Second World War. 1990, the farm was bought by the German family Meyer. Since then the coffee area was expanded, irrigation technology and new coffee processing equipment installed. Since more than 10 years Ngila coffee has found recognition as one of the finest washed Arabica coffees from Ngorongoro Crater. The Estate is surrounded by Ngila Forest Reserve. The crystal clean water of the Endoro stream, coming from Ngorongoro National Park is enhancing Ngila finest coffee. | |
PENAGOS |
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| Address: | TFA Shopping Complex P. O. Box 15066 Arusha, Tanzania |
| Contact: | Tel: +255 27 2508022 Mobile: +255 744 789603 Fax: +255 27 2548145 E-mail: Ulf Kusserow Web-site: www.penagos.com ; www.penagosclausen.com |
| Ecological Wet Coffee Processing
Units (Washed Arabica): Capacity of 500, 1500, 2500, 5000,
7500 and 10000 kg cherry per hour. Ecological Wet Coffee
Processing Units (Washed Robusta): Capacity of 600, 1500
and 2500 kg cherry per hour. Authorized representative of PENAGOS - Colombia for Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
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TechnoServe
Tanzania International non-profit |
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| Address: | 33 Themi Hill, Njiro P. O. Box 2117 Arusha, Tanzania |
| Contact: | Tel: +255 27 2509657 Fax: +255 27 2544544 E-mail: Country Director Web-site: www.technoserve.org |
| Founded in 1968, TechnoServe is a U.S.-based non-profit development organization currently working in 10 developing countries in Africa and Latin America and helping entrepreneurial men and women in poor rural areas to build businesses that create income, opportunity and economic growth for their families, their communities and their countries. TechnoServe achieves this through market research, market linkages, business plan development, financial and commercial linkages, supply chain management and operational consulting. Based in Arusha, with offices in Dar es Salaam, Mbeya and Mbinga, TechnoServe/Tanzania has been in operation since 1991. | |
