Rwanda - Abakundakawa Rushashi
Rushashi, Rwanda
Rwanda - Abakundakawa Rushashi
All Rutabo village farmers deliver their ripe coffee cherries to the Rushashi washing station where it’s being processed. The coffee is fully washed and triple fermented: all coffee is hand picked, depulped, dry fermented for 12 hours, double wet fermented (2 x 18 hours), washed with mountain water, shade dried, then sun dried on raised beds. Farmers connected to the project currently receive 1.67 times the fair-trade base price and adding to that receive an additional premium per kg to stimulate syntropic farming. This premium goes to the cooperative to serve interests of local farmers.