A brief introduction to the cultivation of fine coffee beans in Burundi with mellow taste, geographical location, climate and altitude

There are many variables that affect the quality of the final beans. For example, each mountain has a different microclimate, which in turn affects the growth, picking and handling of coffee fruits, and varies from day to day. Nathan James Johnston, the boss of Cartel Coffee Roasters in Australia, said: "working with Long Miles, we can know exactly where, when and by whom the coffee is picked, which means great sustainability to us.

"Sustainability" is an old topic in the boutique coffee industry, but most coffee companies still want to buy the best coffee at the lowest price, which is not sustainable for local growers. What can we do to solve this problem?

First of all, we need to understand one thing: for most Burundian families, they do not use the money earned from coffee to buy the most basic needs of life, such as food. They grow all the food in their own yard. On average, each family earns only $100 a year, which is usually spent on gas, home maintenance and tuition fees

The cultivation of Arabica coffee trees in Cameroon (Cameroon) began in 1913 as the Blue Mountain Coffee from Jamaica, but the country also produces large quantities of Robbins coffee. The quality and characteristics of Cameroon coffee is similar to that of coffee from South America. The best coffee in the country comes from Bamileke and Bamoun in the northwest. Here, it also grows some giant coffee beans and bean-shaped berry coffee.

Since the late 1980s, coffee production in Cameroon has declined, from 1.8 million bags in 1987 to 1.1 million bags in 1990, while Arabica coffee has dropped from 400000 bags to 200000 bags in the same period. Today, due to the strengthening of the management of the State Coffee Supervision Bureau (National Coffee Supervisory Agency), the output and quality of coffee may pick up.

Lundi's coffee was first brought in by the Germans in the 1900s; they found that bourbon was the most suitable for growing in the local climate, which is usually a "tropical" plateau climate with a very large temperature difference between day and night. However, due to the suspension of investment in coffee research, bourbon has become the only coffee variety left in the country and has been treated with "full washing".

The development of boutique coffee needs continuous breakthrough and innovation. In 2014, Long Miles Coffee Project (LMCP) began to use sun treatment and honey treatment for their coffee, which made professional coffee cup testers overjoyed at the taste of the coffee. According to Miss Gu Qinru, head of Latorre & Dutch Coffee Asia, "usually we can drink citrus and plum flavors in washed Burundian coffee. And this is our first cup of Burundian coffee treated with sun and honey. Its flavor turns into more complex strawberries, grapes and tropical fruits. It seems that the way it is handled is crucial to the taste of coffee.

Flavor: mellow taste, rich aroma, excellent acidity

Suggested baking method: medium to deep baking

★★: good

Burundian coffee market:

Most of Burundi's coffee products are exported to the United States, Germany, Finland and Japan.

Violet fragrance, light acidity, smooth taste, saturated aroma,

Rich and lasting through the introduction of the Belgian, Bloomberg began to grow coffee in 1930. The varieties are mostly bourbon varieties like neighboring Luanda, and coffee grows on mountains ranging from 1750 to 2000 meters above sea level.

The first Arabica coffee tree in Bloomberg was introduced by Belgium in the 1930s.

More than 800000 of Bloomberg families depend on coffee cultivation for a living, mostly in small-scale coffee plantations

Planting at intervals with other crops, artificial planting, without mechanized equipment, most of the varieties of coffee trees are Bourbon and Jackson and Mibirigy, which also belong to the Bourbon system, and the treatment methods are washing and semi-washing.

In the past, it was mostly exported to Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia and the United States.

Coffee export is already an important economic source of Bloomberg, which is mainly different from the famous coffee producing areas.

The chaos of Burundian coffee has been going on for a long time, with a large number of old and new raw beans mixed together, making this coffee unsuitable for grading. This coffee is rough but mild, and has characteristics similar to Kenyan coffee. The flavor is sweet and fruity, with a slightly spicy finish.

Traceability is a common problem faced by coffee growers, raw bean buyers and coffee roasters. There are currently about 3500 families working for LMCP. Production harvesting areas are distributed on eight different hilltops and two processing plants-Bukeye (operational in 2013) and Heza (operational in 2014).