South Sudan: Coffee, the First Fruit of South Sudan

Nov 16, 2015 | Marcos Carrieri, Brazil-Arab News Agency
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In its fourth year in existence, South Sudan is bearing one of its first fruit: a typical coffee, of the Robusta variety, grown since the first days following its independence. The project is a partnership between local farmers, the Swiss coffee company Nespresso and the non-governmental organization TecnhoServe. The result is a crop of “Suluja ti South Sudan,” the name of the coffee whose capsules were released in October, and which will be initially sold only in France because only a small amount of it is available. According to Nespresso, this is one of the first agricultural products ever exported from South Sudan, which is heavily dependent on oil revenues.