What is the PEARL plan? Buf Cafe Coffee Farm introduces the characteristics of Luanda coffee

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Luanda is located in the heart of the interior of Africa. Its fertile mountain terrain and ancient traditional bourbon species indicate that the natural environment needed to grow high-quality coffee beans can be seen everywhere in Rwanda. Coffee was introduced to Luanda by German missionaries in 1904. Coffee has flourished since it was the only income-earning crop for rural farmers in 1930. Whether it was Arabica harvested in March-June or Robsta harvested in May-June, the government encouraged in effect ordering the production of low-quality and high-yield coffee, even though poor quality played an important role in Rwanda's economic development at that time, because it was one of the few crops that could earn cash, but as global coffee prices collapsed, it continued to promote the policy of exporting low-quality Arabica coffee. Changes are bound to be made.

The 1994 genocide claimed nearly 500000 lives, almost wiped out the knowledge and technology of coffee bean cultivation, and at the same time, coffee bean prices around the world fell sharply, making Rwanda's coffee industry even worse. Luanda's coffee industry is now on the rise again, hoping to re-establish the infrastructure needed for the production and processing of boutique coffee beans at a steady pace, most notably the Joint enhanced Rwanda Agricultural Partnership Program (PEARL), which is mainly to help Luanda rebuild agricultural institutions, production capacity and cultivate agricultural talent to help local small farms sell coffee beans directly to buyers in the boutique coffee market. Unlike neighboring Kenya, Ethiopia has a centralized auction system, but its agricultural cooperatives can buy and sell coffee directly with buyers. However, if coffee beans are to be exported from landlocked countries, they must travel 1500 kilometers to Mombasa Mombasa in Kenya or Dares-Salam Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, after 2007 & # 39 Following the rehearsal of the Crop of Gold' Golden Bean Competition, Luanda held its first COE coffee competition in 2008, which drew more buyers' attention to Luanda's high-quality bourbon beans.

In 2011.6, the 100% red bourbon was planted more than 1900 meters south of Luanda. Epiphanie Mukashyaka is the owner and operator of the farm. She is a very active female entrepreneur and a model for women entrepreneurs in the Luanda coffee industry and other industries. Epiphanie lost her husband in the 1994 genocide, but she chose to stick to the small coffee farm left by her family. And began to actively rebuild and develop the cause with the local people. Buf Caf é, founded by Ms. Epiphanie Mukashyaka, has been in operation since 2000, during which she received a loan from the Luanda Development Bank and the assistance of the Joint strengthening Luanda Agricultural Partnership Program (PEARL Programme).

Buf Caf é now owns two washing plants, grows its own coffee trees and buys coffee cherries from more than 2, 000 small farms nearby. Some of these small farmers are directly employed by Buf Caf é or work in Buf Cafe washing plants, where their wages are higher than the local average. Buf Cafe believes that employees will be more willing to work if they get a higher salary. And take pride in the good quality of coffee produced by Buf. It turns out that this idea is correct. Buf's quality control is very strict, with several batches winning the COE Coffee Competition in Luanda in 2008 and 2010 respectively. It is the best coffee company in Rwanda, and the income from selling coffee is mainly used for children's school, medical expenses and investment in other poultry and livestock.

Property Characteristics: farm characteristics

Farm Farm name: Buf Caf é and more than 2, 000 other small-scale farms

Farm owner: Epiphanie Mukashyaka

Region producing area: Nyamagabe district, Southern Province Nima Gabe district, southern province

City City: located in Butare and Cyangugu

Country country: Rwanda Luanda

Altitude altitude: 1600 Murray 1900m

Coffee Characteristics: coffee characteristics

Variety variety: Red Bourbon red bourbon

Processing System treatment: Fully Washed and dried on African beds Water treatment African (Solar) elevated bed drying

Flowering period flowering period: September-October September to October

Harvest period harvest time: March-July March to June

Appearance appearance: 16-17 mesh

Top Jury Descriptions comment: the baking degree (Cinnamon) measured by the cup at the beginning of 60 seconds of explosion.

Aroma aroma / flavor flavor: vanilla, cherry, pudding, coriander, cinnamon, cloves, almonds, caramel, dark chocolate, honey, sugar

Acidity: plum, grapefruit, plum, BlackBerry, malic acid, dense, tartaric acid (grape), sharp and bright acid, refined acidity, acid stimulates mouth secretion

Complex complexity and other other: clean and juicy, bright and lively, round and warm taste, unrestrained flowers and plants, the aftertaste is very sweet, the flavor goes up