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Founded in the year 2000, Dukunde Kawa Musasa Coopertive cultivates its high quality coffee not very far from Gorilla Mountains in Gakenke district, Northern Province in Rwanda. The cooperative started with 300 members but up to date they are about 1,816 members who are indeed coffee farmers among whom 33% are women. Members are located in different sectors namely Ruli, Muhondo and Coko where most the coffee plantations are covering around 1,100 ha supplying coffee cherries to a total of 4 washing stations, the largest of which being the Musasa. Dukunde kawa musasa own a wet mill which is located at an altitude of around 2000 m above sea level. Dukunde Kawa secures a high standard of living for Rwandan farmers by ensuring access to health and education support to all cooperative members and to economically and environmentally sustainable coffee industry and was certified fairtrade since 2004 and ranked 14th in the CoE 2013 competition.
The quality of our coffees
To achieve the best from our Bourbón coffee, our farmers do the best agricultural practices which is followed by timely harvesting and supply of cherries to the washing station where further handpicking of cherries and subsequent sorting is followed before processing. The cherries are processed through wet method and then fermented and graded accordingly times. Thereafter the graded coffee are carefully sorted once more with dedicated women and then sun dried to obtain one the highest quality coffee that is sold in different high end coffee international market.
*DUKUNDEKAWA MUSASA has obtained several Cup of Excellence awards 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and this year 2015
CWS Geographical locations and conditions
Province: North
District: Gakenke
Sector: Ruli
Latitude (m): 482750
Longitudes (m): 9800044
Altitude: 1500 to 2000 meters
Coffee variety: Bourbón
Soil type: Silt-clay-sandy and silty-sandy
Soil pH mean: 5.1
Precipitation range: 1300 to 1400 mm
Temperature range (Celsius degrees): 17 -18 degrees
CWS Owner: Dukunde Kawa Musasa
Status: Cooperative
Number of farmers: 1,816
Creation date: 2004
Treatment capacity: 198 tons
Processing System: Wet processing
Drying system: sun drying,
Road accessibility: Fair
Water source: mountain natural spring
Energy Source: Electricity
Environmental protection measures: Natural seepage
Contact person: MINANI Athanase
| Rank | 21 |
|---|---|
| Farm Name | Dukundekawa Musasa/Mbirima/Rwashoscco |
| Farmer/Rep. | Augustin Ruabagisha |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Year | 2015 |
| Size (30kg boxes) | 27 |
| City | Ruli, Gakenke |
| Region | North |
| Program | Rwanda 2015 |
| Month | - |
| Aroma/Flavor | Floral, deep dark chocolate, peach, sugar, lemon, orange juice, lime juice, orange, apple, honey, cherry, plum |
| Acidity | Citric, crisp, bright |
| Other | Juicy, long sweet after taste, transparent |
| Processing system | Wet Process |
| Variety | Bourbón |
| Farm Size | - |
| Auction Lot Size (lbs.) | 1772.51 |
| High bid | 5.61 |
| Total value | 9943.78 |
| High bidders | Wataru & Co., Ltd. |