Kigingar small Cooperative Coffee Flavor taste Kenya KFCS large Cooperative introduction

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The small treatment plant (junior cooperative) is located near Kerugoya Town, Gichugu District, Central Province. Founded in 1988, its members are composed of neighboring villagers of Kamwana, Gatumbi, Kithama and Kathaka, with a land area of about 7 acres. Small treatment farms in Kenya tend to sign up with large cooperatives and become members of the group. At present, Kigingar belongs to the KFCS large Cooperative (Karithathi Farmers Co-operative Society Ltd).

There are 800 members, and about 700 still grow coffee, producing about 160000 kilograms of raw beans a year, with an average of less than three bags per farmer, which is a typical Kenyan smallholder cooperative.

Post-harvest processing procedure:

The coffee cherries harvested on the same day will be sent to the treatment plant for centralized treatment.

After receiving the cherries, first go to the sink to screen out the light ones, then use the peeling machine to remove the peel and sundries, wash them in the tank for one night, wash them the next day, put them into the fermentation tank and ferment, so circulate until the fermentation is completed, wash them again, and send them to the drying scaffolding for sun drying.

The water from the treatment plant comes from clean water sources in the forests of Kenya Mountains and is recycled and reused.

Dried beans with shells are placed in 20 large and ventilated storage tanks, and the coffee flavor will develop more fully.