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Tanzania: Lesson From Moshi Coffee Taste Competition

Peter Temba Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam) January 25, 2012 The Eastern Africa Fine Coffees Association (EAFCA) holds a yearly National Taste of Harvest Competition, which recognizes specialty coffee, in one of its eleven member states, namely Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe. Recently, EAFCA in partnership with Tanzania National Taste of Harvest Committee, Tanzania Coffee Board and the US-based Coffee Quality Institute, through USAID - COMPETE Programme, held the annual Taste of Harvest Coffee Competition at Sal Salnero Hotel in Moshi. The annual Taste of Harvest (TOH) was then held at Mazao / City Coffee Facility through their generous venue sponsorship, under the tutelage of highly trained and experienced facilitators from Coffee Quality Institute Coffee Corps and the Coordinator from EAFCA, Ms Mbula Mutahi. According to the Executive Secretary of Tan...