Mondul Estates was established in 1931.
The estate is a 211 hectare farm on Mondul Mountain, around 25km from Burka town in the Arusha region of Northern Tanzania. This area is the heart of the Maasai land in Tanzania. The Estates have about 200 permanent staff, who are provided with housing on the Estates (in four different camps), and the minimum salary is set at 20% above the government minimum requirement. Staff have social security and Labour Union membership included in their contracts, and an Estate credit union also offer loans and advice for education, health and house construction. Mondul has a natural spring which supplies the wet mill; where cherries are delivered within 6 hours of picking, soaked in tanks and then dried until moisture levels reach 12% or lower. Burka has its own cupping lab on site, and samples of each day’s lot from Mondul are cupped and assessed for quality.
