Moivaro Coffee Plantation

I didn't find the coffee plantation very interesting because our guide wasn't very good, but I learned that:
- Coffee trees take 3 years to grow before they can be harvested.
- The coffee trees grow best in the shade so people plant them with banana trees to give them shade.
- The workers harvest them every 4 months.
- Coffee is one of Tanzania's top exports.
- The harvesters are paid $1 per day for each row of trees.
The process of going from tree to the market place is as follows:
1. The tree gets small white flowers which turn into beans. When the beans turn red they are ready to be picked.
2. Once they are picked, they are peeled with a small hand held machine, but the larger plantation companies send them straight to the factory for processing.
3. The beans are then dried in the sun for 14 days.
4. Next, the beans are roasted in an open fire fueled with charcoal.
5. The beans are then ground in another hand machine and turned into a powder for Aribica Coffee. Some beans are also exported with out being ground.

I also learned about avocado trees. I found out that it only takes 2 years until a tree bears fruit and four months for the fruit to ripen. The fruit is harvested by climbing into the tree and shaking it so that the ripe fruit falls down to the ground.