Northwestern region where Tanzania's main robusta is grown, in the Kyerwa and Karagwe areas.
Kagera, in northwest Tanzania, holds the country's main robusta growing areas, Kyerwa and Karagwe. The Haya people of Kagera were the region's recorded early users of coffee, and German colonists mandated arabica planting around Bukoba in 1911. Kagera robusta is typically natural processed, with some experiments in washed robusta, and Royal Coffee says robusta farming is expanding in the West Lake zone on subsidised seedlings.
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The Haya of Kagera boiled robusta beans with herbs and chewed them as a stimulant, and also used the beans as currency.
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Royal Coffee groups Kagera and Kigoma as a West Lake zone where robusta farming is expanding.
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Elsewhere in Tanzania
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- Coffee production in Tanzania · Wikipedia
- A Guide to Tanzanian Coffee Production · Perfect Daily Grind
- Tanzania Export Review · Royal Coffee