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Published: 2024-11-08 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/11/08, The first problem for Malaba coffee farmers is to set up a cleaning station. The coffee fruit must be transported to the cleaning station to wash the sugar under the skin of the coffee bean within 12 hours after picking, otherwise the flavor of the coffee will be greatly damaged. In July 2001, with UNR, the Ministry of Culture and Industry of Rwanda (Office des Cultures Industrielles du Rwanda,OCIR-Caf), ACD

The first problem for Malaba coffee farmers is to set up a cleaning station. The coffee fruit must be transported to the cleaning station to wash the sugar under the skin of the coffee bean within 12 hours after picking, otherwise the flavor of the coffee will be greatly damaged. In July 2001, with funding from UNR, the Ministry of Culture and Industry of Rwanda (Office des Cultures Industrielles du Rwanda,OCIR-Caf é), ACDI/VOCA and ISAR, they set up the first cleaning station near the main road in the Cyarumbo district. However, the cleaning station was not opened until the harvest time, so only 200 kilograms (441 pounds) of the harvest were washed that year. However, the result was surprisingly good. In 2002, the cleaning station was upgraded to supply more coffee processing. ACDI/VOCA is responsible for funding the construction of pipelines to bring in Mount Huye mineral water and help improve the efficiency of cleaning stations. The pipeline was opened in March 2002.

During the 2002 harvest season, Rwanda introduced a new certification system to ensure that coffee beans shipped to cleaning stations are of proper quality. About half of Abau Uzam Gambi's members are certified, allowing cooperatives to find buyers in professional markets in Europe and North America (USAID), Michigan State University, Texas A & M University, as well as many other Rwandan organizations, including the National University of Rwanda, the National Agricultural Laboratory (ISAR) and the Geary Institute of Technology Management (KIST), are also involved in the program. In February 2001, PEARL began working with Abauzam Gamby to improve the quality of coffee to meet the standards of the American professional coffee market, and then sold coffee to the United States. Rwandans have been growing coffee since colonial times, but until 1999, its products were still classified as below C in the global market.

No one cares about it. The reason for the poor quality is that farmers do not have a fixed procedure for washing coffee beans and do not process coffee fruits according to specifications in time. Buyers buy coffee beans at US $0.33 per kilogram, and farmers feed themselves on meagre profits at low prices, but they are still in poverty. In 2000, the mayor of Malaba asked for development assistance from the National University of Rwanda (UNR), which is located near the city of Butare. The following year, the National University of Rwanda helped set up the Joint strengthening Rwanda Agricultural Partnership Project (PEARL). The PEARL project is also supported by several organizations: United States Agency for International Development

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