Nyabirongo - Uganda

Nyabirongo is the community where the Agri Evolve Coffee Station is to be found just outside the town of Kisinga. This coffee has been sourced from a large number of smallholder farmers from the southern part of the Rwenzori region. Many farmers live in the lower areas at 1300masl, and others live higher in the foothills up to 1600masl and above. There are over 2700 farmers from the area who bring their ripe cherries to the coffee station for processing.

For this batch, the coffee cherries were placed in water for 48 hrs before being moved to the drying tables to complete the Natural drying process. The cherries were turned by hand on a regular basis to ensure even drying. The dried cherries were then hulled, cleaned and sorted in the Dry Mill before being bagged in ‘Grainpro’ bags inside of jute sacks to ensure the coffee reaches the UK in perfect condition after the journey by truck to Mombasa and by boat to London.