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| Coffee plantation in Rungwe, Mbeya |
RECENT investigations carried out by The African in Mbozi district, Mbeya region has come to reveal that farmers processing their coffee through Central Pulpery Units (CPU’s) do realize more income when compared with those doing the same through convectional methods.
Accordion g to these investigations carried out within seven (7) randomly selected coffee farmer’s groups located in various villages within Mbozi district it was proved beyond reasonable doubts that CPU’s plays an important role when it comes to increasing coffee farmer’s income.
These investigations which compared prices given to farmer’s with CPU’s in the 2012/13 and 2013/13 coffee harvesting seasons revealed that farmers with CPU’s stands a better chance of getting more money when compared with those without CPU’s.
Verifying this fact were various at Mpogolo Coffee Group, Emnee Coffee Group, Lungwa AMCOS, Mpakani Coffee Group, Ifumbo Coffee Group, Iganda and Mpito Coffee Groups.
Among these groups except for Lungwa AMCOS AND Mpakani Coffee Group the remaining groups had CPU’s installed and used in their respective areas of operations.
The Treasurer of Mpogolo Coffee Group, Mr. Zerubabel Nzowa said coffee farmers in his group had earned a total of Tshs 3,260 for every kilogram of parchment coffee harvested in 2012/13 while Councilor Burton Kakote from Ifumbo Coffee Group said in this same year his farmer’s earned a total of Tshs 3,200 for the same.
Joining hands to this was the Chairman of Iganda Coffee Group, Mr. Masoud Mnange who said in this same year his farmer’s had earned a total of Tshs 3.015 for the same while when giving similar statistics the Chairman of Mpito Coffee Group said the same was Tshs 3.013.
In the contrary when giving similar statistics for this same year 2012/13 officials from Lungwa AMCOS gave figures which were less when compared to the above mentioned groups in this article.
According to the Vice Chairman of this cooperative society, Mr. Julius Mwamuna his farmer’s received a price of Tshs 3,043 per kilogram of collected from home parchment coffee processed through the convectional method.
Similarly when giving statistical figures for the year 2013/14 these same officials gave prices as Tshs 2,9000 9Mpogi\olo Coffee Group) and Tshs 2,800 (Emnee Coffee Group) both of these two groups having CPU’s installed in their areas of operations.
In the contrary same officials from Lungwa AMCOS and Mpakani Coffee Group both without CPU’s gave figures as Tshs 2,300 and Tshs 2,370 for the same collected in 2013/14 respectively.
From the above facts it can be well concluded that CPU’s plays an important role in increasing coffee farmers income due to the fact that CPU’s produces big quantities of coffee with uniform quality which is liked by many multinational coffee buyers in the world market meaning the same should always fetch competitive prices when compared with coffee processed from the convectional or manual methods.
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