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East African coffee, supplied at origin

East African Coffee Exporter

Jber Coffee Limited supplies Arabica and Robusta green coffee — specialty and commercial — from Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Burundi to importers, roasters, traders and industrial buyers worldwide.

Ugandan coffee is milled and graded in our Kampala facility; the other five origins are prepared at established mills at origin. Every lot is analysed and cupped against its approved sample before it ships.

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Coffee planted in contour rows across steep hillsides above a valley of smallholdings, with red-earth tracks cut into the slopes.
Coffee planted on contoured hillsides above a smallholding valley.
East African origins
6
Species coverage
Arabica + Robusta
Kampala processing facility
ISO 22000:2018
Export terms
FOB · CFR · CIF

Catalogue

Green Coffee We Supply

Coffees can be sourced by origin, species, process, grade, screen, crop year, cup requirement and — where available — certification.

All green coffee

Sourcing map

Six origins, six grading systems

Harvest windows barely overlap, which makes sourcing across the region a scheduling advantage as well as a range one. Select an origin to see its species, regions, harvest and grades.

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East African coffee originsL. Victoria
Schematic. Relative positions are correct; outlines are simplified and not to scale.

Tanzania

Tanzania Coffee Board (TCB): licensing, auctions at zonal centres, and registration of direct export contracts

Washed Arabica from the northern and southern highlands, plus dry-processed Robusta from Kagera.

Species
Arabica · Robusta
Harvest
June–October in the south; July–December in the north
Processing
Fully washed · Natural · Honey (limited)
Export window
August through to the following June, peaking October–March
Key regions
Kilimanjaro · Arusha · Mbeya
Grades
AA · A · AB · B
Altitude
1,000–2,000 m (Arabica typically 1,400–1,900 m)
Ports
Dar es Salaam · Tanga
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Origins

Coffees From Across East Africa

Each origin runs its own grading vocabulary, harvest cycle and export practice. These are the terms you will see on an offer sheet.

Workers hand-sorting ripe red coffee cherries spread across raised drying beds.HarvestSelective picking sets the ceilingParchment coffee spread in long rows across a tarpaulin drying floor in full sun, hillside behind.DryingParchment turned to dry evenlyA cupping table in use: two hands breaking the crust with cupping spoons across coded sample bowls.EvaluationCupped before approvalA handful of green coffee beans held above a jute export sack stencilled Jber Coffee Ltd, natural Robusta.PreparationMilled, screened and sorted to the contracted grade

How sourcing works

From Origin to Your Roastery

Eight steps. The two that absorb most of the effort — and most of the risk — are milling to the approved standard and the loading itself.

  1. 01Origin sourcing
  2. 02Harvest & processing
  3. 03Milling & grading
  4. 04Sample & cupping
  5. 05Buyer approval
  6. 06Export preparation
  7. 07Container loading
  8. 08Shipment
A cupping table in use: two hands breaking the crust with cupping spoons across coded sample bowls.
Breaking the crust across coded sample bowls.

Quality

Green Coffee Quality, Measured Before Shipment

Six figures decide whether a parcel is what the contract says it is. Each is reported with the method behind it, because a number without a method is not comparable with your own measurement.

Grade
The origin’s own preparation class
Screen size
Retention screen plus permitted percentage passing
Moisture
Range plus the measurement method and instrument
Defects
Full defects per 300 g on a stated weighting table
Density
Bulk density in g/L, for roast planning
Cup evaluation
Multiple cups against the approved sample
How We Evaluate Green Coffee

Current crop

Current crop offers

Availability is confirmed on enquiry

We do not publish a standing stock list for East African green coffee. What can be offered depends on the harvest in progress, what has been milled and what is already committed, so each offer is confirmed against the current crop when you ask — with the lot’s specification and the date its position was checked.

For when each origin typically ships, see the coffee crop calendar.

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Processing

Processing Shapes the Coffee

The largest lever available at origin, and the one a buyer can specify most directly. These describe tendencies — execution decides the result.

Honey and other processes

Honey lots are produced in small quantities across Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Ethiopia. They are a station’s deliberate separation rather than a standing category, so availability is confirmed against the current crop rather than assumed — see honey processing. Descriptions above are tendencies; execution decides the result.

An open jute sack filled to the mouth with roasted coffee beans, against a dark background.

Secondary category

Bulk Roasted Coffee

Bulk roasted and ground coffee may be supplied for distributors, industrial buyers and foodservice channels according to product specification and commercial availability. Green coffee remains the business; this sits downstream of it.

No private label, OEM or brand development. Coffee is supplied against a product specification, not as a consumer brand.

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Export

Export-Ready Coffee

Packaging, container planning, inspection and documentation — the operational half of the transaction, and the half where an otherwise well-bought coffee most often goes wrong.

Container Loading & Export Guide

There is no universal bags-per-container figure

The binding limit is the lowest of the container’s payload plate, the shipping line’s stated maximum and the road weight limits on the origin and destination legs. Our calculator does the arithmetic on figures you supply, and refuses to assume a payload.

20ft dry container

40ft dry container

Schematic only — bag count is not to scale and is not a load figure. Actual loading is limited by the container’s payload plate, road weight limits on the origin leg, the shipping line’s stated maximum and the stow pattern used.

Schematic only — not a load figure.

Traceability & EUDR

Traceable Coffee From Origin to Export Lot

Traceability breaks at aggregation points, so what is achievable is set by where those points are. These are the levels that actually exist — not a claim that every lot reaches the last one.

Traceability levels
  1. Step 1

    Farm / plot

    Producer identity, plot geolocation

  2. Step 2

    Wet mill / station

    Delivery record, day lot

  3. Step 3

    Dry mill

    Outturn or milling batch number

  4. Step 4

    Warehouse

    Lot identity, storage conditions

  5. Step 5

    Container

    Bag count, seal number, stuffing record

Each node is both a record and a potential merge point.

What we do not claim

No lot is described as “EUDR compliant” — compliance is a property of an operator’s due diligence process, not of a parcel of coffee. Where geolocation coverage for a supply base is partial, we say so, with the denominator stated.

Buyer resources

Green Coffee Buyer Resources

The reference material behind every offer we send — written to answer the questions that come up on real enquiries.

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Tell Us the Coffee You Need

Lots can be specified by origin, region, process, grade, screen, moisture, defect tolerance, crop year and packaging. Send what you know — anything left blank widens the offer rather than blocking it.

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What a good enquiry contains

  1. 1The role the coffee plays — single origin, blend component, espresso base, soluble input.
  2. 2Origin and region, or an invitation for us to propose against a profile.
  3. 3Grade and screen with a tolerance, plus the defect basis you work to.
  4. 4Volume and cadence: one container, or a programme across a season.
  5. 5Destination port, preferred Incoterm and the arrival window you need.
  6. 6Certification and traceability requirements, if any.

Not sure how to specify? The specification guide lists every field and what each one constrains.