Namwela Demonstration Plot officially started its operations in 1976 with a population of 762 coffee trees of the traditional variety K7, which were planted in 1955 as per the chart below:

3.0      EXPERIMENTAL PROJECTS

i)        Shade research under Agronomy

ii)        Tissue Culture (TC) Bananas - Physiology

iii)        Insect  Pest assessment - Entomology

iv)        We have a Coffee nursery that can hold up to 50,000 seedlings