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.

The coffee is kept on a capped multiple-stem system and is rain-fed. Years of dedicated management have achieved average productions of 1500kg per ha with the following average grade percentage: AA 30%, AB 60%, PB 5%. 

The availability of clean spring water abstracted from the Monduli Forest Reserve contributes to the excellent quality of the 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.

For both the 2001 and 2002 seasons, M’ringa Estates Limited was awarded the Tanzania Coffee Association Award for the Best Quality Estate Mild Arabica Coffee.

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. 

With 3 years of pioneer work and development from a green field to a coffee farm, with the first planting in January 2001, the objective of the coming years is to concentrate on sustainable coffee and tropical fruit production.