Burundi, Ruvumu - Washed
Brown Sugar • Caramel • Mixed Citrus • Creamy
Migoti Coffee Company, founded in 2015 by engineers Dan and Pontien, seeks to transform Burundian coffee-producing communities by connecting local farmers with global buyers through quality processing and transparent supply chains. Drawing on Dan's business expertise and Pontien's ties to a coffee-growing community, the company established a modern washing station in 2016, reviving coffee farming after years of neglect due to Burundi's civil war. Beyond coffee, Migoti fosters sustainable development with plans for a hydropower plant and new income sources like essential oil crops, promoting long-term growth and resilience.
The Ruvumu Hill washed coffee is produced at the Umuco coffee washing station, located in Muruta Commune, Kayanza Province.
This washing station has been collaborating with Migoti Coffee for several years and is owned by three Burundian entrepreneurs: Picasso, Zephyrin and Jeremie. These friends began working together in 2017, planting a coffee plantation of their own with 32,000 coffee trees and distributing coffee seedlings to neighbouring farmers.
In 2020, they started producing only natural processed coffee, and in 2024, they built and began operating a washing station to produce fully washed coffee for the first time. Over 1,700 coffee farmers deliver cherries to the Umuco station.
Environmental Factors
Throughout Burundi, there is significant poverty, malnutrition and unemployment. Although coffee has been a primary crop in the country for many years, farmers have become increasingly demotivated because the price they receive for cherries has not kept pace with inflation. The vision of the Umuco washing station and its entrepreneurial owners is to support farmers in achieving higher productivity from their coffee trees, planting more trees, and earning better prices per kilogram of cherries delivered to the washing station.
Processing Methodology
The Umuco washing station produces an average of 40 tons of green coffee per year, processing both fully washed and natural coffee. Fully washed coffee is first depulped using a three-disk McKinnon pulper, then fermented in tanks for 12—24 hours and dried on raised beds for 2—3 weeks.
Each daily lot, dried to a moisture content of 11-12%, undergoes assessment through cupping sessions before being blended into larger lots at the dry mill. After milling, the green coffee is stored in a well-ventilated warehouse on pallets before being transported by truck to the Dar es Salaam port ready for the journey to the shores of Australia.
Brown Sugar • Caramel • Mixed Citrus • Creamy
Migoti Coffee Company, founded in 2015 by engineers Dan and Pontien, seeks to transform Burundian coffee-producing communities by connecting local farmers with global buyers through quality processing and transparent supply chains. Drawing on Dan's business expertise and Pontien's ties to a coffee-growing community, the company established a modern washing station in 2016, reviving coffee farming after years of neglect due to Burundi's civil war. Beyond coffee, Migoti fosters sustainable development with plans for a hydropower plant and new income sources like essential oil crops, promoting long-term growth and resilience.
The Ruvumu Hill washed coffee is produced at the Umuco coffee washing station, located in Muruta Commune, Kayanza Province.
This washing station has been collaborating with Migoti Coffee for several years and is owned by three Burundian entrepreneurs: Picasso, Zephyrin and Jeremie. These friends began working together in 2017, planting a coffee plantation of their own with 32,000 coffee trees and distributing coffee seedlings to neighbouring farmers.
In 2020, they started producing only natural processed coffee, and in 2024, they built and began operating a washing station to produce fully washed coffee for the first time. Over 1,700 coffee farmers deliver cherries to the Umuco station.
Environmental Factors
Throughout Burundi, there is significant poverty, malnutrition and unemployment. Although coffee has been a primary crop in the country for many years, farmers have become increasingly demotivated because the price they receive for cherries has not kept pace with inflation. The vision of the Umuco washing station and its entrepreneurial owners is to support farmers in achieving higher productivity from their coffee trees, planting more trees, and earning better prices per kilogram of cherries delivered to the washing station.
Processing Methodology
The Umuco washing station produces an average of 40 tons of green coffee per year, processing both fully washed and natural coffee. Fully washed coffee is first depulped using a three-disk McKinnon pulper, then fermented in tanks for 12—24 hours and dried on raised beds for 2—3 weeks.
Each daily lot, dried to a moisture content of 11-12%, undergoes assessment through cupping sessions before being blended into larger lots at the dry mill. After milling, the green coffee is stored in a well-ventilated warehouse on pallets before being transported by truck to the Dar es Salaam port ready for the journey to the shores of Australia.
Brown Sugar • Caramel • Mixed Citrus • Creamy
Migoti Coffee Company, founded in 2015 by engineers Dan and Pontien, seeks to transform Burundian coffee-producing communities by connecting local farmers with global buyers through quality processing and transparent supply chains. Drawing on Dan's business expertise and Pontien's ties to a coffee-growing community, the company established a modern washing station in 2016, reviving coffee farming after years of neglect due to Burundi's civil war. Beyond coffee, Migoti fosters sustainable development with plans for a hydropower plant and new income sources like essential oil crops, promoting long-term growth and resilience.
The Ruvumu Hill washed coffee is produced at the Umuco coffee washing station, located in Muruta Commune, Kayanza Province.
This washing station has been collaborating with Migoti Coffee for several years and is owned by three Burundian entrepreneurs: Picasso, Zephyrin and Jeremie. These friends began working together in 2017, planting a coffee plantation of their own with 32,000 coffee trees and distributing coffee seedlings to neighbouring farmers.
In 2020, they started producing only natural processed coffee, and in 2024, they built and began operating a washing station to produce fully washed coffee for the first time. Over 1,700 coffee farmers deliver cherries to the Umuco station.
Environmental Factors
Throughout Burundi, there is significant poverty, malnutrition and unemployment. Although coffee has been a primary crop in the country for many years, farmers have become increasingly demotivated because the price they receive for cherries has not kept pace with inflation. The vision of the Umuco washing station and its entrepreneurial owners is to support farmers in achieving higher productivity from their coffee trees, planting more trees, and earning better prices per kilogram of cherries delivered to the washing station.
Processing Methodology
The Umuco washing station produces an average of 40 tons of green coffee per year, processing both fully washed and natural coffee. Fully washed coffee is first depulped using a three-disk McKinnon pulper, then fermented in tanks for 12—24 hours and dried on raised beds for 2—3 weeks.
Each daily lot, dried to a moisture content of 11-12%, undergoes assessment through cupping sessions before being blended into larger lots at the dry mill. After milling, the green coffee is stored in a well-ventilated warehouse on pallets before being transported by truck to the Dar es Salaam port ready for the journey to the shores of Australia.