MOE HTET ESTATE
Background
Moe Htet Estate is situated in Naung Cho Township, Northern Shan State, Myanmar. Naung Cho township is home to Myanmar's oldest arabica coffee estate, Chaung Gwe estate, an 120 acres farm started in 1930 by Scottish missionaries and then operated under control of the Ministry of Agriculture & Livestock since 1994.
Moe Htet owner, U Kyaw Hlaing, completed his degree in Mechanical Engineering at Rangoon Institute of Technology, and is married and the father of two children. After working as a marine engineer for 12 years and docking in well over 100 countries, he returned to Myanmar in 2002 and now operates Moe Htet coffee estate and an instant food factory in Yangon. Actually, he is Managing Director of Mandalay Coffee Group. He has training from the Coffee Quality Institute in cupping, and certification in processing (Level 2: Professional). He is fluent in Burmese and English. Moe Htet farm is currently employing 17 permanent workers, that usually rise to around 200 in harvest season. The estate has 200 acres and an elevation of 1128 masl. Established in 2007, they only grow Arabica verietals, being the most cultivated SL-34 and Costa Rica T8667, although there are also experimental blocks of SL-28 among others. Coffee is intercroped with silver oak trees for shade.
The coffee cherries are harvested and trucked to the MCG facility daily. All Moe Htet coffees which sent to MCG are processed as fully washed coffees, with an overnight dry fermentation in tanks for almost 24h. After the fermentation, the parchment is demucilaged and carried into patio for sun drying between 7 and 10 days.
The coffee is stored in parchment into polybags with inner plastic, to ensure its freshness. Before the shipping, coffee is dry milled in MCG facility. Firstly is hulled in the “beneficio” machine, after goes to the sizer and the densimetric table, for having the last mechanical classification in the optical sorter. All the coffees are properly handsorted afterwards, so we can ensure that we deliver always the best quality as possible.
Moe Htet produces one of the finest specialty coffees in the country, always delivering quality and consistency, all together. Moe Htet is always looking forward to implement new processing methods, and the farm is offering every year naturals, fully washed processed beans.
