Description

Buzira is a community very close to the main Agri Evolve coffee station at Nyabirongo in the southern part of Kasese District. The local farmers are smallholders growing coffee as their main cash crop, usually to raise funds to pay school fees for their children. The farmers throughout this area, who live and farm from 1300 up to 1900 masl, bring their freshly picked red-ripe cherries to the washing station for processing. They are paid a top price at the time of delivery. The cherries are then pulped, washed and laid out to dry, turned regularly until the moisture content is correct. The coffee is stored, and then hulled before the long journey by truck down to Mombasa on the Kenyan coast, and by ship to the UK.

We are so proud to be working with this profit for purpose business, Agri Evolve Ltd. They have provided us with wonderful coffee for a few years now and this new lot is even better!

An agricultural Social Enterprise, Agri Evolve are working with farmers, from a wide area within the foothills of the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda, their main aims are about improving yields, improving profits, and improving lives. They provide a good market by paying good prices and by paying the farmers promptly. In the UK their trading name is Rwenzori Coffee Co. It is a family business with the son, Jonny heading up the team in Uganda and father, Martin here in the UK, providing the link and supplying us our green coffee.

They have a strong connection with the community having helped to establish a clean water supply for them in 2020. For more information on how they keep sustainability and support for the community at the top of their agenda, visit https://agrievolve.com/ace-2030/