Introduction to the characteristics of Rwanda Coffee Flavor description and planting Environment of varieties in producing areas

The provinces prior to 2006 are as follows: Butale (Butare), Biwamba (Byumba), Shanggu (Cyangugu), Gitalama (Gikongoro), Giseni (Gisenyi), Gitarama (Gitarama), basic Gu (Kibungo), Kibuye (Kibuye), Kigali City (Kigali), Kigali-Ngali (Kigali Rural), Ruhengeri (Ruhengeri) and Umtala (Umutara).

A new administrative division will be implemented on January 1, 2006. The whole country of Rwanda is divided into four provinces (intara), the Province de province (intara), the north province (Province du Nord), the western province (Province de province), the southern province (Province du Sud), the city of Kigali (Ville de Kigali) and one municipality (Kigali), with 40 counties and cities (akarere) and 416 townships (umujyi).

Before 1 January 2006, the country was divided into 12 provinces. Later, in order to solve the problems caused by the massacre in Rwanda in 1994, the government decided to reorganize the political district. The first reason is the decentralization of power to the local authorities, because the authorities believe that the excessive concentration of government power is the main factor leading to genocide, and the second is to diversify the ethnic groups in the various districts so as to reduce the division between ethnic groups.

Rwanda's economy is dominated by agriculture. The population engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry accounts for 92% of the country's population. The main cash crops are coffee, tea and cotton. Because it is an agricultural and animal husbandry country, coupled with the loss of many young workers caused by the genocide in 1994, it is a huge blow to a country that is not already rich, and Rwanda is still a backward country. After the civil war, Rwanda has intensified its development in the cultivation and trade of coffee. In recent years, the Rwandan government has also taken positive measures to set up coffee production cooperatives in various places to give technical guidance and financial support to farmers. It is expected that the domestic economic development can be promoted to a certain extent through the coffee industry. Because of the excellent performance of Rwandan coffee in recent years, it is becoming more and more popular in the international market.

Rwanda has been growing coffee since colonial times. Although the crops are mainly coffee, the quality of coffee produced in Rwanda is not outstanding, and its status in the coffee world is low, and few people pay attention to it. Most of the coffee varieties grown in Rwanda are bourbon. Rwanda, known as the "country of a thousand hills", has a high-altitude mountain environment, fertile volcanic soil and abundant precipitation, and has a climate conducive to the growth of coffee trees. The advantages of varieties and excellent natural conditions should have produced high-quality coffee, but why the quality of its coffee performance is not satisfactory? The reason lies in the later stage of processing. Improper handling will reduce the quality of coffee and sacrifice a lot of good flavor in vain. Harvesting, planting, treatment, grading, transportation and other links will directly affect the quality of raw coffee beans, in which the lack of control in a certain link will become a stumbling block to good coffee.

The coffee fruit needs to be transported to the processing plant as soon as possible after picking, but due to the lack of domestic facilities, it is unable to deal with the fruit at the first time. The fruits are piled up after being picked, which will continue to develop and accelerate mildew and decay due to lack of ventilation. Rotten fruits will affect the quality of coffee and show defective flavor.

In recent years, Rwanda has made great progress in the production and processing of coffee. First of all, coffee fruits are picked manually; coffee production cooperatives are set up all over the country to provide technical guidance to coffee farmers; coffee farmers send them to coffee processing stations for cleaning and screening as soon as possible after picking, and select mature and high-quality coffee fruits for processing.