How Much Does Rwandan Coffee Cost?_Why Rwandan Coffee Beans Are So Rare

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As early as 2008, Rwanda joined the COE raw bean evaluation project. From 2008 to 2013, Rwandan coffee beans have become the new favorite in the European and American markets.

The quality of others is not bad at all, but why is it so difficult to find a good Rwanda?

● first of all, because the overall production of Rwanda is low (as can be seen by its land area). This makes Rwandan coffee beans not as common as Ethiopia and Kenya, which are ubiquitous on the market.

Second, although Rwanda has high quality coffee, it is located in the interior of Africa, and transportation is a big problem. From Rwanda through Tanzania, and then from the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam. But because the coffee in Tanzania is cheaper and the law and order there is chaotic, it is often easy to be robbed or switched.

In addition, the war has also caused serious damage to the coffee industry in Rwanda. Even if many good beans are produced, they cannot be exported for various reasons.

The civil war and genocide in Rwanda in 1994 brought great disaster to Rwanda.

The demographic changes brought about by the massacre have made the once-poor country even worse, losing a large number of workers and the country's economy on the brink of collapse.

The Holocaust has also brought about great changes in the demographic structure of the country. Children under the age of 14 account for about 40% of the population, and many women become widows.

● March 2018, we finally met three kinds of raw beans from Rwanda at the Shanghai Exhibition. After many blind tests and comparisons, we chose one of the three, and finally pick washed the bourbon of this KOPAKAMA processing plant.

In terms of acidity, this Rwandan berry acid is unique, different from Ethiopian citrus acid and Kenyan berry acid, is "another kind of" characteristic African coffee performance.

In flavor, it has a concrete flavor of cherry and plum. In the whole producing area, only high-grade beans can have such flavor.

And to our surprise, this bean has a very good cleanliness-good cleanliness also means that this bean has a very exquisite handling in the picking process.

Later, when we learned that the bean used to be a regular customer of Rwanda COE TOP 10, it was no wonder that it was such a typical high-quality Rwandan boutique coffee: high sweetness, sour berries, clean, full, smooth, juicy, with plum and cherry flavors.

We were shocked when ● learned the story behind this bean. If you have heard of the Rwandan Holocaust, you will know how hard-won this Rwandan coffee bean is:

This bean comes from the KOMAKAMA washing plant, and the coffee is made of red bourbon. The picking of these red bourbon is mainly collected by the members of the cooperative. This cooperative society not only grows coffee, they also help their members improve their lives.

For example, 180 widows who survived the 1994 Rwanda massacre formed a group under the cooperative to rebuild their coffee farms, and the money they earned will also be used to improve the lives of more difficult members. Today, the group has 302 women members.

We go to the coffee producing area to look for beans every year, whether in Ethiopia or in Yunnan, we always have a strong feeling: in mature coffee consuming countries, coffee may be the feeling of daily happiness; in our country, coffee is high-end and high-end; but in the country of origin, coffee is blood and sweat, even blood and tears.

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