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RWASHOSCCO: Promoting Rwanda’s Speciality Coffee
T Angelique Karekezi
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September 2018
o promote speciality coffee six farmer cooperatives in 2005 formed the Rwanda Small Holder Specialty Coffee Company (RWASHOSCCO Ltd) that would help improve the value chain and market Rwanda’s speciality coffee on the international market.
The farmer-owned coffee roasting, marketing and export company was charged with providing key services to the six (6) cooperatives which are spread across the country that include; Abahuzamugambi ba Kawa/Maraba (Huye), BUFCOFFEE (Nyamagabe), COCAGI Gashonga (Rusizi), COCAHU Humure (Eastern Province), Dukundekawa Musasa (Northern Province) and KOAKAKA (Nyamagabe and Huye).