he Songwe region, rich in agricultural production, is situated in southern Tanzania bordering Zambia andMalawi. This is the location of the Mbozi District, populated with 175 villages and around 515,000 people.

One of these villages is the Iyenga village, which was originally a part of the Itumpi village, but the villagers found it difficult to access government resources due to distance, and thus created their own village in 1974.

During the harvest, cooperative members will eitherdelivertheir cherries directly to the Iyenga wet mill to beprocessed orwill process their cherries at home.All willstart the harvest bypickingtheir cherries by hand atpeak ripeness. Members without processing facilities will bring their cherries to the mill.Quality isthenassessed,and the cherries are sorted in order to remove underripe cherries and foreign matter.The cherriesare pulped topeel awaythe external fruitand washed to remove theremaining mucilage. The beans arethendriedin the open sun on raised beds for 9-10 days