Tanzania Mara AB - Tarime District (2017 Crop)

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Bag Weight 60 KG BAG
Harvest Season 2017/18
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Lot Number P602896-1
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About This Coffee

This AB quality coffee is fully washed and comes from the Tarime district of Tanzania. Tarime District is one of the six districts of the Mara Region of Tanzania, East Africa. It was previously known as the "North Mara District". It is bordered from the north to east by the Kenyan districts of Migori, Trans Mara and Kisii, and to the east by the Maasai Mara game reserve. To the south it is bordered across the Mara River by the Musoma Urban, Musoma Rural and Serengeti districts, and to the west by Rorya District. Distances in Tanzania are vast - there's almost 1000 kms between coffee producing regions in the North and in the South, same for East and West. The altitudes are up to almost 2000 MASL in many places. 90% of coffee producers are smallholder farmers, owning between 0.5 to 3 hectares, and less than 10% of the coffees are grown at estates. Similar to Kenya, coffee came with the French missionaries in the late 1800s, and was planted around Kilimanjaro for the most part (there are the Bourbon varieties that are often seen as SLs in Kenya now). In Tanzania, with its Indian influence, the Indian Kent varieties came from Mysore in the 1920s. In general, there are two varieties widely used today, the Bourbon-descended N39 hybrid, and the Kent hybrid KP432, as well as Kent varieties K7 and K9.

  • Cup Score 85.5
  • Region Tarime
  • Processing Washed
  • Processing Description Fully-washed, dried in the sun on raised African beds
  • Bag Type Grain Pro / Ecotact
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  • Coffee Grade TZA CA WA AB
  • CTRM Contract Number P602896-1
  • Country of Origin Tanzania
  • Warehouse The Annex