RWANDA ​rugali NATURAL

General Information

Origin: Rwanda
Region: Western Province
District: Nyamasheke
Washing Station: Rugali
Coffee Growers: 1,150 active members
Cultivar: 100% Red Bourbon
Altitude: 1550 - 1800 masl
Process: Natural
Harvest: April - June 2020
Grade: NAT15+
Moisture | Density: 9,9% | 0,682 g/ml
Packaging: 60 Kg w/ GrainPro
Score: 88
Notes: Plum, winey, floral, intense
Ikawa profile: 
Preparation: 

TRACEABILITY

Rugali Washing Station is located in the Nyamasheke district of Western Rwanda and supplied by Muraho Trading Company. This coffee is fully washed and was fermented for 12 hours. Rugali has five full time staff and expands to 180 seasonal workers during peak season, with 124 drying table for the 1,150 farmers that provide cherries to the station.

Muraho works directly with small coffee producers across five washing stations in Rwanda and are dedicated to improving farming practices and quality for the producer's livelihoods and for their customers. Last season through our FFS program (Farmer Field Schools), Muraho developed a nursery for 110,000 seedlings (Kilimbi – 50,000 and Rugali 60,000) and distributed them successfully to their family of Farmers in Nyamasheke. This program helps them train and educate small coffee producers in better agricultural practices in order for them to gain better yields from their trees.

​Muraho is the first company in Rwanda to get official legal approval from the governing board NAEB to produce and export Honey and Natural processed coffees.

HISTORY & COFFEE IN RWANDA

​When we talk about Rwanda is impossible not to mention the horrible genocide that happened exactly 22 years ago (1994) and left nearly 1 million dead.

Despite its sinister past, today is admirable to see how this small nation has risen from the deepest and darkest background, to become one of the most prosperous and safe countries in all Africa.

Currently, the Rwandan coffee industry is at its peak and producing exceptional coffees. The road clearly has not been easy, but through the leadership of a serious government, educational projects and strategic planning, they have laid the foundations for this success.
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Today, some 420,000 people are directly or indirectly related to the coffee industry. High quality coffee prices are more stable than commercial prices, which has improved living conditions of many farmers and their families. In addition, coffee also contributes to the reconciliation of the two main ethnic groups: Hutus and Tutsis; as we have seen them working together to produce more and better coffee.

CULTIVATION

This lot was processed using the fully washed method with double fermentation. The cherries are delivered the same day of the harvest at the washing station. The means used for delivery may be walking with a bag of cherries in the head, by bicycle or by small trucks that are organized by the cooperative in a central collection point.

Once delivered to the washing station, the cherries are visually checked and selected again to ensure that only mature cherries are processed. Then they will go through the mechanical pulper, usually in the afternoon, the pulper will separate the heavier beans (the floaters are removed) into three categories. After pulping, coffee is dry-fermented for 12 hours. Then, parchment is washed and selected by gravity using flotation channels (the heavier beans that sink are usually the best). Later, coffee will go into soaking, which is a wet-fermentation in a tub with clean water for another 24 hours. Finally, the coffee will pass to african beds, where usually women, will select again by hand when the parchment is still wet, this way defects are easier to detect.

Once the process of washing with double fermentation and wet selection by hand is completed, the beans are moved to the raised African beds and sun-dried for about two weeks. During this period the parchment is constantly moved several times a day to ensure an even drying.

Finally, when the coffee reach between 11% moisture content, will be stored in parchment, separated and label carefully by lots, producer and harvest dates. When ready for export, will be transported to Kigali for milling, packing and loading.

HAND SORTING THE POTATO DEFECT

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