What Is A Maraba Coffee

Maraba coffee is a type of coffee which is grown in Maraba, Rwanda. The variety of the plant is named Bourbon. It is classified under the Arabica coffee species. The best time for the beans to be picked out is when it rains heavily in the months March, April and May. In a special plant in Maraba, the beans are washed and dried. There are various companies which have beans that undergo the roasting process. The beans that were picked in Maraba are then priced to be sold to roasting companies. The beans are mainly sold to the United States and United Kingdom, the company names are Community Coffee and Union Coffee Roasters respectively. Some beer products also contain Maraba coffee. The Rwandans have grown coffee for many years, but it was not marketed well throughout the world. After 1999, the product was marketed but only made a mere thirty-three cents per kilogram. However, the Maraba coffee growers did not just sit silent, they took action in 1999, and the ones who lost family in the genocide came in as well. A new system was brought into play in 2002 which was very much improved.

The region in which the coffee bean is grown in a region called Maraba, in southern Rwanda. The main season is when it rains and anywhere from March to May. The growers usually spend hours and hours picking the beans by hand. The coffee beans are grown at a high altitude, from seventeen hundred meters to twenty-one hundred meters. The rainfall rate is currently at one hundred and fifteen centimeters per year. There are machines which are used to wash the beans and the skins are removed using a deskinning machine. The final products are then put in holding tanks, and then sold to various companies to either be roasted or sold to foreign markets.

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