Musozi, Rwanda

Rwamatamu Coffee is a family owned and run business, founded in 2015 with goals to contribute to the fight against poverty by creating local job opportunities.

The estate has 20 hectares of coffee farmland, where it both grows its own crop and purchases the cherries from affiliate co-operatives, local producer families, and
smallholder farmers. These cherries are separately collected, processed, sundried, sorted, then bagged and exported as a premium product.

Rwamatamu coffee farm and washing station sits atop rich volcanic soil, at 1600 to 2000 meters above sea level, within the Western province of Rwanda. The estate is located near the picturesque rolling hills that flank Lake Kivu, in a region that provides a tropical highland climate with an average temperature of 14 to 24 degrees celsius, along with regular rainfall. This makes the Arabica trees flourish, producing a dense, hard bean come harvesting season, which runs from January through to March.