Tanzania AA - Sepukila

Red berry, sweet, milk chocolate, good acidity
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Bag Weight 60 KG BAG
Harvest Season 2021/22
Status Spot
Lot Number P609112-8
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About This Coffee

Sepukila Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Society Ltd (Sepukila Amcos)  was registered in 1993 as an Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Society with an aim of collecting coffee from small scale farmers and sell it to the markets collectively, the cooperative works with 204 small local coffee farmers in the Ruvuma region of the Mbinga district of Tanzania growing coffee above 1300 meters. The cooperative is led by a group of committed board members who gain the position through democratic elections. This washed AA includes both Kent and Compact varieties. 

Country of Origin Tanzania
Harvest Season 2021/22
Coffee Grade TZA CA WA AA
Bag Type Grain Pro / Ecotact
Plant Species Arabica
Processing Washed
Variety Kent
Co-Op Sepukila Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Society

History of Coffee in Tanzania

Like other coffee growing regions in East Africa, it seems likely that coffee may have been known as a garden crop grown for barter and consumption (chewing rather than brewing) as early as the 16th century. German occupiers introduced commercial cultivation of at the end of the 19th century and coffee became an exported cash crop. Following WWI, the British took control of the region and the estate model was firmly established for coffee. During the transition years from British “protection” to independence, coffee farming cooperative began to emerge and would eventually dominate coffee production after formal independence in 1961. Today, 95% of coffee farmers are smallholders, growing coffee on less than 5 acres of land.

Growing Coffee in Tanzania

Exports from nearly every coffee growing country in Africa are lower now than they were twenty years ago. The most notable exception is Ethiopia, where coffee exports have reached 3 million bags, nearly double the number in 1997. Less dramatic, but nevertheless unique for Africa, is the strong and steady growth in Tanzania. Taking the average number of bags exported annually 2007-2017—to account for crop fluctuations—Tanzania experienced an increase of 11 percent over the previous 10 years. That might not seem like much until you consider that only two other African countries have experienced growth by the same measure, Ethiopia (37%) and Uganda (1%). Tanzania broke the million bags exported ceiling for the first time in 2009 and did it again in 2013. This increase in exports has coincided with a near 600 percent increase in domestic coffee consumption over twenty years. The only coffee growing country to experience a more dramatic increase is Vietnam, where domestic coffee consumption has grown by 700 percent over the same period.

  • Processing Washed
  • Bag Type Grain Pro / Ecotact
  • Plant Species Arabica
  • Variety Kent
  • Co-Op Sepukila Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Society
  • On Sale No
  • Top Lot Yes
  • Status Spot
  • Coffee Grade TZA CA WA AA
  • CTRM Contract Number P609112-8
  • Country of Origin Tanzania
  • Warehouse The Annex

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