Asosiasaun Café Timor
Discover Timor-Leste Coffee
Connecting Timor-Leste's coffee producers and businesses with the world.
Asosiasaun Café Timor. The national platform connecting Timor-Leste's coffee sector.
The origin
One Origin. Many Stories.
Coffee has grown in the highlands of Timor-Leste for close to two centuries, planted under shade on steep slopes between 600 and 1,850 metres. Almost all of it is grown by smallholder households farming small plots alongside food crops.
The island is the origin of Híbrido de Timor, a naturally occurring Arabica–Robusta cross later used in coffee breeding worldwide for its leaf-rust resistance. It still grows here alongside Typica and Catimor.
Investment over the past decade has concentrated on processing: central wet mills, raised drying beds and lot separation. That work is turning a long-standing commodity origin into a specialty one.
Discover Timor Coffee
Uniting Timor-Leste's coffee community for a sustainable, prosperous, and globally recognized coffee sector. ACT mission
Timor Coffee at a Glance
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Explore Timor Coffee
Eight entry points into the origin, from geography to export documentation.
Origins & Regions
Six municipalities, altitudes from 600 to 1,850 m, and who operates in each.
Varieties
Híbrido de Timor, Typica and Catimor — what grows where, and how each cups.
Processing
Washed, natural and honey capacity across member mills.
Harvest
May to October, starting on the lower slopes and ending in the high Ainaro gardens.
Coffee History
From nineteenth-century plantings to the discovery of the Timor hybrid.
Sustainability
Shade systems, soil cover and the economics of smallholder gardens.
Quality & Cupping
The ACT scoring protocol, grading and lot documentation.
Export Information
Documentation, port logistics and shipment windows out of Dili.
Member directory
Meet the People Behind Timor Coffee.
Producers, cooperatives, processors, exporters, roasters and service providers across the coffee sector, searchable by activity, municipality and export capability.
For buyers
Looking for Coffee from Timor-Leste?
Send one inquiry to ACT and we route it. The trade desk reviews volume, process and quality requirements against member capability and introduces the organisations that can supply them.
- Find exporters
- Find producers
- Find processors
- Request coffee information
- Request samples
- Contact ACT
News & Insights
All News →Timor Coffee Starts Here.
Whether you are sourcing green coffee, researching the origin or operating in the sector, ACT is the point of contact.