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FAMILY COFFEE FARMS – IN BUKOBA

Coffee Growing Area

            BUKOBA AREA – Western part of Lake Victoria

Altitude:           1500 metres above Sea level

Soils:    Red Soils, they use cow manure as fertilizers

Climate:

RAINFALL     Q1       = 150 mm

                        Q2       > 250 mm

                        Q3       < 50   mm

                        Q4       = 150 mm

 Temperature    15o C < t < 28o C. Annual average 22º C

Growing Period           First year ½ kgs

                                   After three years 3 kgs

Grown coffee: Two types         Robusta & Arabica

HOW is coffee beans processed:

Normally it is pruned manually, and put into bags which immediately are put on sun for drying. It can take a week to dry up. After drying will wait for sometime but occasionally could be taken to machine for cover moving

Harvest Times:                     Arabica            April

                                               Robusta           June

Grading, Processing:            Arabica            AA (14% of crop)

                                                                       A (24% of crop)

                                                                       Lowest= HP, coffee from ground + debris

Shade Grown:             Mixed: Coffee is grown with bananas for shade and other trees

Certified Organic:     None certified: small coffee farms raise coffee as cash crop, cows                                                                   and goats (fertilizer, food) and subsistence crops, fruits/vegetables

Other Major Coffee Growing Regions in Tanzania: 

            Moshi District: sides of Mt. Kilimanjaro

            Arusha: Meru   Oldeani.

            Pare: High Plateau between Lakes Nyassa and Taganyika, Songea -Ruvuma   (South at Lake             Malawi)

Rank in Production:  Tanzania is 8th in Africa 24th in World

Botanical Cultivars:      Kents, Bourbon, Typica/Nyara, Blue Mountain

Introduced:                  1893, Bourbon arabica introduced by the Jesuits;

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