OgirinCoffee Origins: Malawi
Malawi? Coffee is believed to have been introduced to Malawi in the late 1800s. According to one report, John Buchanan, a Scottish missionary, introduced a single tree from the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens to the nation in 1878. It began in southern Malawi's Blantyre district, and by 1900, annual coffee production had reached 1,000 tonnes (1,100 tons).Despite its promising start, coffee output soon fell due to a mix of poor soil management, pests and illnesses, and competition from Brazil's increasingly dominant …










