Twenty-five years after independence, Burka regained much of the property and farm rights it had lost under socialist rule. The new Board of Directors includes active conservationists, who focus on the preservation as well as cultivation of the estate. In 2005, Burka has gained an export quality certification, opening a whole new direct export segment to the production process, and making Burka a household name amongst specialty coffee buyers. The history of Burka Coffee Estates is rich and gracious, with generation of family lines running side by side, as both locals and expatriates worked the land to create the flourishing farms visible today.
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...and Coffee farming tradition
The current Managing Director was born on the plantation, and works along side many of his father’s employees, who watched him grow up, and join the family tradition of managing Burka Coffee Estates. Recently other expansions have undergone. In 2007, the Board of Directors agreed to take over management of Mondul Estate, bringing the total number of estates to three. Today, as in the past, coffee farming remains a distinguished and valuable tradition in Arusha. Ingrained in the local community, dedicated to conservation, and providing the world with consistently excellent premium quality grade Arabica Coffee, Burka is prospering today as it did in the past.
