Southwestern county on the Congo and Uganda borders where coffee has grown since the 1920s, mostly robusta, with wet mills hit by conflict since 2016.
Yei, in Central Equatoria in the south-west of South Sudan near the borders with DR Congo and Uganda, is the country's best-known coffee hub, with an estimated 1,000 smallholder farmers. Coffee has been grown there since the 1920s, and robusta is more common than arabica. New wet mills supported washed coffee in recent years, but conflict since 2016 has hindered them.
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Nespresso and TechnoServe launched programmes to support smallholders in South Sudan after independence in 2011.
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Elsewhere in South Sudan
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- A guide to South Sudan's coffee sector · Perfect Daily Grind
- Yei River County · Wikipedia