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Dukunde Kawa Musasa Cooperative

Rwanda - Mbilima - Honey - Bio

Red bourbonHoney
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About this coffee

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This red Bourbon is produced by the Dukunde Kawa cooperative in the hills of north-west Rwanda. Mbilima is one of the cooperative's four washing stations, where this honey process is produced. 

To carry out this process, the cherries are pulped, then dried with the mucilage, at the peak of the harvest. Only the ripest, densest cherries are picked by hand.

The pulp is then mechanically removed without the use of water. The wet parchment is then laid on a raised bed, no more than 3 cm high, for 3 days, without being touched, to ferment.

After 2 days, the coffee can be turned over to avoid any uncontrolled fermentation. The coffee is turned over as many times as possible during the first week and any defective beans are removed until the drying process is even. The drying process takes around 25 to 30 days, depending on the weather conditions.

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  • Origin

    Rwanda
  • Region

    Province du Nord
  • Terroir

    Musasa
  • Cooperative

    Dukunde Kawa Musasa Cooperative
  • Producer

    Dukunde Kawa
  • Species

    Arabica
  • Variety

    Red bourbon

  • Process

    Honey

  • Drying

    Drying beds

  • Packaging

    60kg - Jute bags

  • Altitude

    2000 - 2200
  • Harvest period

    May - June
  • Type of harvest

    Manual

Cooperative Dukunde Kawa Musasa Cooperative

Dukundekawa is the perfect example of a committed cooperative! Founded in 2003, the Dukunde Kawa cooperative today brings together almost 2,000 farmers, 80% of whom are women. The cooperative is located just 50 km north of Kigali as the crow flies, but after more than 2 hours 30 on winding tracks.

At this cooperative, the water used to wash the coffee is reused. The cooperative encourages farmers to reforest their plots and plant shade trees. When a farmer leaves the cooperative with a coffee plant, he also gets a shade tree. She has also set up a system of financial aid with the creation of a "Farmers saving account": the possibility of taking out a small low-interest loan with the cooperative. 

The cooperative has been Fairtrade certified since 2005. Thanks to Fairtrade premium prices, the cooperative has been able to finance the purchase of cows for members of its community, thus helping to diversify its income, provide health insurance and training in agronomy, with the aim of becoming ever more sustainable and improving coffee quality.

Dunkunde kawa is also behind the Musasa Milk project, which helps to diversify farmers' incomes by giving them a cow. The cow is used to fertilise the fields, but also to sell milk to the cooperative, which processes it into yoghurts and other dairy products for the local market.

  • Total number of hectares

    392
  • Altitude

    2000
  • Environment

    Hilly

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A few words about Dukunde Kawa

Founded in 2003, the Dukunde Kawa cooperative today brings together almost 2,000 farmers, 80% of whom are women. The cooperative has been Fairtrade certified since 2005. Thanks to Fairtrade premium prices, the cooperative has been able to finance the purchase of cows for members of its community, thus helping to diversify its income, provide health insurance and training in agronomy, with the aim of becoming ever more sustainable and improving coffee quality.

The cooperative's projects include improving the washing stations and setting up a milk collection center to produce dairy products for sale on the local market. 

Analyzed to the nearest gram

Analysis performed on incoming sample

2023/2024

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Density

706g/l

Humidity level

10.3%

Water activity

0.5224aw


Screen

+13


Colorimetry

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Project Greengo - Rwanda

Supporting the development of a cooperative through the purchase of coffee

$0,20

The amount set aside by the cooperative for each kilo of coffee purchased to provide cows for the cooperative's women producers.

14

The number of cows purchased by the cooperative in 2022 and 2023.

20

The number of graduates from Musasa Coffee School in 2023. 14 of whom are now working in the coffee industry.

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