MPOLA HALISI
Currently we have a small coffee farm, coffee roasting and packaging factory in Mbinga district – Ruvuma. The company also supports 55 small farmers in coffee. Mpola Halisi it is the brand name for our roasted coffee. it’s our main product which is currently being sold locally which is both Ground and Beans. Green beans are sold in bulk for export.
“Mpola Halisi” Mpola it means black coffee without sugar in Tengo language and Halisi a Swahili word meaning authentic, real or true. “Mpola Halisi” the Tanzania’s best Arabica Coffee which is grown in the Matengo Highlands along mountain ranges of great rift valleys on Lake Nyasa walls in a valley called Hagati in Mbinga District Ruvuma region, at an altitude of 1240 to 2100 meters. The red ripe cherries are picked, Pulped fully and washed to become cream coloured. Then it is followed by getting rid of its second layer (The husk) and is ground to its size and quality. The colour of the bean is green. The beans are then roasted and grinded to ground coffee.