Our Story
It takes a lot to brew the perfect cup. It begins with sourcing the highest quality coffee beans at favorable prices and then shipping them with utmost care. That's the detailed oriented approach that sets Harvestbelt Coffee apart.
Leading roasters in the Middle East can rely on the quality of our specialty coffee beans to gain a competitive advantage in an ever-changing market. Our operations are guided by data-driven analysis that leads us to farms we know and trust. Then at the heart of it all is our passion to deliver a product that's truly distinctive.
Based out of the UAE, our purpose is to ensure a steady supply of high-grade, traceable, and often exclusive green coffee beans and deliver solid outcomes for our partner farmers and roasters. We are a part of Al Saqr General Trading Co. LLC which has 35 + years of solid legacy in commodity trading.
Our Approach
We hold three core values to ensure smooth, consistent, sustainable trading operations and build a strong bond with roasters and farmers.
Commitment
As one of the new age importers of specialty coffee we are committed towards creating a sustainable pricing model, and are continuously working to develop a transparent supply chain system to safeguard roasters timelines. Oh no, this is not all, we want to create a seamless belt of reliability with efforts made to showcase the farm and market scenarios to the roasters in order to help them, sourcing the right coffees at the right time.
Quality
The most sensitive part of the coffee starts right from the terroir. Terroir decides allot about coffee’s personality then, leading us to the varietal and farm practices to extract near to precise statistics for our selection process. Soon after, we keep our markets in mind and closely observe the processing of the coffees and the results of it. At our cupping and quality lab facility in Dubai we have our QC and procurement team working together to source finest of the cups with a view of how the roasters can portrait them to their consumers.
Traceability
We all have been witnessing traceability as a crucial part of specialty coffee industry, but that’s one side of coin. Our aim to supply 100% Traceable coffees is to try justifying the efforts a farmer / grower. We are trying to reflect the day and night hardship made by the processing team in your cup. We aim to highlight how precious coffees have been to us as we have seen a minor difference in climate can severely affect the terroir and the plants. This is why we want to deliver 100% traceable coffees.
Meat our Team
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Tarek Mikati
Business Development Manager
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Vishnu Rajendran
Sales & Sourcing
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Fouad Ibrahim
Operations & Logistics
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