Lot A646: Tropic Coffee / Bwira Kabyiniro

Producer Story:

Kabyiniro coffee washing station is located in Kabyiniro village, Myiha cell, Muhororo Sector, Ngororero District in Western Province of Rwanda. The area experiences tropical climate of high altitude varies between 1,700-1,950m above sea level. It is one of Rwanda regions which have high rainfall with an annual average temperature varying from 16°C to 21°C. Annual rain falls ranging from 1,100 to 1,500 mm, thus these features are favourable to coffee development.
Coffee cherries are harvested by hand by farmers themselves, but at the peak of season temporary pickers are hired for speeding up the harvest, thus increasing income for workers in the area.
Farmers receive payment upon delivery, but Tropic Coffee aims to always pay a bonus for the higher quality of coffee supplied in order to provide a better life to their workers and families. Currently, the coffee washing station has capacity of processing more than 200 Mt of Organic certified coffee, whereby more than 50% of coffee comes from this jointly managed farm (Bukekera Coffee Estate) mostly owned by a group of women of the KOPIGUKA Cooperative and Bwira mountains (mostly managed by Imboni Cooperative).