The EU restored aid earlier this year but not to farms on 'disputed' land – excluding the majority of small coffee growers Ray Mhondera theguardian.com September 24, 2013 Zimbabwe has perfect growing conditions for coffee, once producing some of the best beans globally. Photograph: Alamy HARARE - A misty dawn has not yet given way to daylight in Zimbabwe 's eastern highlands. Lenard Moyo, a coffee farmer near Chipinge town, is prising red arabica beans out of their trees and putting them in his bag – as he does every morning during harvest season. "It's hard when it's so cold outside, but we have to pick them early," he said. Zimbabwe's coffee belt has the perfect growing conditions for the beans: high mountain peaks and cool climates, and the country used to be famous for its "super-high-quality" product, slowly sun-dried, and tasting smooth and fruity. In the 1990s it produced some of the best coffe...