Tanzania AB Mimba Farm

Toffee, apple, praline,
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Bag Weight 60 KG BAG
Harvest Season 2024/25
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Lot Number P8002682-2
  • 35 Bag(s)
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About This Coffee

Mimba Estate was established in 1995 by Joseph Meila, a Swiss immigrant. The 120 hectare farm is situated between 1400 and 1700 masl, with plantings of Bourbon and Kent varieties. Care is taken to preserve topsoil, with mainly organic compost-based fertilizer and mulch applied to reduce weed growth and promote water retention. Selective hand-picking of ripe cherry is emphasized at harvest time; the stringent sorting and meticulous processing that follows helps produce the highest quality possible. 

This fully washed lot is 100% N39 variety, a Bourbon strain developed by the Tanzania Coffee Research Institute. There is a cherry floatation process prior to pulping to select the highest quality cherries for processing. The classic fully washed process includes a fermentation followed by sun drying on raised beds. 

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Origin Tanzania
Subregion Ibembwa, Songwe
Harvest Season 2024/25
Producer Type Single Estate
Farm Name Mimba Farm
Processing Washed
Plant Species Arabica
Variety N39
Coffee Grade TZA CA WA AB
Screen Size 15 Up
Bag Weight 60 KG BAG
Bag Types Grain Pro / Ecotact

The 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.

  • Subregion Ibembwa, Songwe
  • Farm Name Mimba Farm
  • Producer Type Single Estate
  • Processing Washed
  • Bag Types Grain Pro / Ecotact
  • Plant Species Arabica
  • Variety N39
  • Min Growing Altitude 1550m
  • Screen Size 15 Up
  • On Sale No
  • Top Lot No
  • Price Per Kg £8.85
  • Status Spot
  • Coffee Grade TZA CA WA AB
  • CTRM Contract Number P8002682-2
  • Origin Tanzania
  • Warehouse Vollers Group Uk