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Species and introduction of coffee beans in Rwanda

Published: 2024-11-10 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/11/10, There are about 33000 hectares of coffee plantations in Rwanda, with 500000 people engaged in the coffee industry. With the good natural conditions of high altitude and fertile volcanic soil, the country's fertile soil and suitable climate contribute to plant growth, and coffee trees seem to be driven or forced to grow upward, or because they grow too fast to produce the best coffee beans. Luwang, the beautiful land of a thousand hills

Rwanda has approximately 33,000 hectares of coffee plantations and 500,000 people engaged in coffee farming. With its high altitude and fertile volcanic soil, the country's fertile soil and climate are conducive to plant growth, and coffee trees seem to be driven or forced to grow upwards, or to grow too fast to produce the best coffee beans. Rwanda, the beautiful country of a thousand hills, has a long and rich culture of growing highland coffee, mainly high-quality Arabica coffee. Rwanda is the only country in the world that can fully enjoy the harmony between soil, elevation and climate. In this unique growing environment, Rwanda's high-quality coffee has a distinctive taste and aroma. Bourbon coffee grown in Rwanda is one of the original varieties of Arabica coffee.

Rwandan water washing

Rwandan coffee market:

Rwandan coffee, in its washed arabica bean form, is of absolute quality. As far as Africa is concerned, its coffee industry stands out because the country thrives mainly on producing the best possible coffee beans. Rwandan coffee is gaining increasing popularity on the international market.

The mission of the Rwandan Coffee Association is to manage and supervise the operation of the Rwandan coffee industry from production to marketing. The recently revised mission focuses on policy formulation and implementation, with greater emphasis on efforts to improve professionalism and marketing in the coffee industry. Since its inception, the Rwandan Coffee Association has been instrumental in promoting Rwandan coffee culture and influence.

But anyway, the soft, rich flavor of the country's coffee is excellent.

Rwanda is a small African country, and the local people are also relatively poor, but it produces very good straight coffee, which is different from its neighbors Kenya and Ethiopia. Rwanda's coffee is mainly round bourbon, and the taste is not as prominent as Ethiopia and Kenya, but the uniformity is excellent.

Rwanda Karnogi coffee is grown and harvested by local small farmers and washed by Gitesi Washing Station. Although this is a relatively young coffee processing plant, it has always been famous for producing high quality Rwandan coffee due to its serious and responsible working attitude, good processing equipment and standardized processing procedures. Rwanda Karnogi coffee won the first place in the CoE in 2013. The coffee bean shape is a typical bourbon shape, round beans, crystal clear, The treatment is very clean, the residual silver skin is very small, the color is green, suitable for medium and light baking, and the beans are placed in 10 seconds at the end of the explosion.

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