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Rwanda Kinini Karasha

Company  R & B Import Export Ltd. 
Country Rwanda
Province Northern
District Rulindo
Lot Karasha
Washing Station Kinini 
Altitude 1800 - 2150 masl  Varieties Bourbon  Flowering Period December-January 
Harvest Period March-June 
Process Washed

Coffee is picked and brought to the Kinini washing station (newly built in May 2016) where it is separated from the other lots to be treated depulped using a four disc McKinnon pulper and fermented from between 5 to 20 hours, depending on the decision of the quality manager monitoring the fermentation. The coffee is then sun dried for an average of 15 days, depending on the intensity of the sun. 


The Karasha lot is a separation from amongst the 633 farmers that are currently using the Kinini washing station, chosen from trees at altitudes of 1800-2150masl on north easterly facing slopes. The coffee is grown on terroir that is provably excellent for producing coffee, with neighbouring areas producing Cup of Excellence winning lots already.  


In 2012, 38 of the 252 hectares were planted with Bourbon Mayaguez 139 seedlings, 2,000-2,500 in each hectare. This totalled nearly half a million new trees, that are now cropping. The cultivar itself most likely originated from the island of Reunion (The same place as where the original Bourbon mutation was first noted), together with Jackson that is also widely found in Rwanda, and a bourbon mutation. The third commonly found cultivar, Bourbon Mayaguez 71, could have come from Ethiopia, introduced via the Congo.


FULL CIRCLE AT DR WAKEFEILD

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Every year we take part in an event organised by importers DR Wakefeild to share ideas and innovations throughout the coffee supply chain. 

Here, Dr Aaron P. Davis, Head of Coffee Research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (UK). He defined what a varietal (cultivar) is, how they are produced, the development of the different generations of varietals, and the properties each holds, such as resistance to different diseases and taste.​

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