Tanna coffee

“It’s a potential source of income for them and we’ve been conducting several trainings for farmers on producing good quality coffee,” says Peter Koah, the Association Director of Farm Support Association – Vanuatu.

Located 400m above sea level, the deep rich volcanic soils of Tanna Island make it one of the most highly fertile and an ideal location for growing pure and organic coffee in Vanuatu.

Vanuatu with a long history of Arabica Coffee production, is best known for its coffee in many parts of the word.

The Tanna Coffee Development Company is an internationally recognized brand which encourages farmers around Tanna to produce organic coffee.

The International Coffee Day will be open to everyone and there will be educational displays on coffee growing, harvesting, processing and roasting from ‘Tree to the Cup’.

According to owner, Terry Adlington, the amount is slightly up compared to last year’s harvest.

“Our anticipated target post-cyclone was between 20-25 tonnes overall but the harvest so far this year appears to be slightly up,” said Adlington.

Adlington says the farmers worked hard in the recovery and rehabilitation programme but it was disappointing because it took some farmers 12- 18 months before they started pruning the damaged trees.

The harvest is anticipated to be the largest since Tropical Cyclone Pam hit the country in 2015 and farmers are happy about their achievement.

Tanna Coffee management says as they come closer to the end of the harvest season, it reminds them of how far they have reached since 2015.

“Every single day we are happy to be alive and moving forward, and every single coffee bean picked and processed counts towards the future of our farmers and their families, “said the management.

Owner Terry Adlington says this will be first time that Tanna Coffee will exhibit its products at the expo.

Adlington says they have prepared coffee for sampling, brochures for distribution, on-line order forms and some coffee packets for sale.

“We are very happy to be there and promote our excellent product, as we feel that we can compete against some of the best in the world, with our unique single origin coffee,” he said.

The Caffè Culture Show is the leading UK business-to-business event dedicated to the café and coffee trade.

The production of coffee for 2016 has started 3 months late compared to other years and so far the company has harvested 5,000 kg from an overall estimated produce of 15,000 kg says Terry Adlington the owner of Tanna Coffee.

With an anticipated production of 100,000kg produce in 2015, Tanna coffee was only able to produce a total of 8,000 kg.

Tanna coffee will not be able to make a comeback with a target of 100,000 kg produce until in 3-4 years’ time but is slowly bouncing back to business says Adlington.