The Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union (1984) Ltd is located in Moshi town, at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in the northern part of Tanzania. The 60,000 producers who are members of KNCU lives on an altitudes of 1,000 – 2,000 meters above sea level. Societies are located in districts of Rombo, Hai, Siha, and Moshi Rural.

Because of the high altitude, the region has a mild climate with temperatures ranging from 17°C to 34°C rainfall varies greatly from place to place. The humid, intensively cultivated highland area receives 1,000–1,500 mm annually, with the probability of at least 1,000 mm even in the driest years.

Coffee and bananas are by far the most important crops, occupying about 55% of the cultivated

land in the region as a whole and about 69% of the cultivated land around Mt. Kilimanjaro the minerals of the volcanic soil helps KNCU growers to produce some of the world’s finest coffee.