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D.R. Congo Lugendo Natural
About This Coffee
The Region
Eastern DR Congo still bear the scar from 20 years of conflict, political instability, disease, social tensions and illegal activities that put local population in constant risk of precarity and insecurity. Nonetheless, Eastern DR Congo has some of the greatest intrinsic potential to produce high quality arabica coffee in East Africa due to its environmental, geographic and agro-climatic conditions; namely, altitude, volcanic soils and rain patterns. For a long time Congolese coffees have been associated to poor quality and a damaging reputation of insecurity and armed conflicts, pushing Virunga Coffee to constantly fight to restore a name of high-quality coffee associated to high environmental and social standards. A key approach found to be very successful is by maintaining tight control on handling and post-harvesting processes by investing in collection points and washing stations. That's why Virunga Coffee invested In Lugendo CWS, in order to provide economic oportunities for the surounding communities throuh a sustainable, high-quaility and climate-smart coffee business.
The Process
Ripe cherries are delivered to the station for careful sorting and floatation to sort by density. Once the highest quality cherries are selected they are de-pulped, then fermented for an average of 24 hours his parchment coffee is then dried in the sun for around 10 days until the optimum moisture content has been reached. At this point the coffee is rested in a cool, dry environment for 1-2 months, before being milled, sorted and graded by bean size.
- Subregion South Kivu
- Producer Type Washing Station
- Wet Mill Lugendo Washing Station
- Processing Natural/Dry Processed
- Bag Types Grain Pro / Ecotact
- Plant Species Arabica
- Variety Typica
- Min Growing Altitude 1450m
- Max Growing Altitude 1750m
- Screen Size 15 Up
- On Sale No
- Top Lot No
- Price Per Kg £7.50
- Status Spot
- Coffee Grade DRC CA WA KIVU G3 SD
- CTRM Contract Number P8002435-5
- Origin Democratic Republic of Congo
- Warehouse Vollers Group Uk