Popular Coffee Varieties

Ruiru 11 Coffee Variety

Ruiru 11 is a compact, high-yielding variety developed in Kenya to allow for more intensive coffee production with fewer losses from diseases and pests. this is the updated version test.Ruiru 11 is a compact, high-yielding variety developed in Kenya to allow for more intensive coffee production with fewer losses from diseases and pests.

Ruiru 11 owes its existence to a coffee berry disease (CBD) epidemic in 1968 that led to the loss of 50% of Kenya’s production. The crisis sparked action. In the 1970s, the coffee research station at Ruiru, which gives Ruiru 11 its name, began an intensive breeding program for varieties that were immune to CBD. 

The SL28 coffee variety

SL28 is the flagship of Kenyan coffee varieties. Buyers flock to Nyeri because of the exceptional cup quality and high yield of the SL28.Scott Agricultural Laboratories selected the SL28 from the Tanganyika Drought Resistant variety in 1931 – a cultivar you can lead back to the Bourbon variety. The SL prefix is an acronym for Scott Agricultural Laboratories, and the 28 is the serial number.