{"id":44437,"date":"2021-09-21T09:58:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T09:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/muhanga-based-cooperative-of-coffee-farmers-dominates-awards-at-kombe-la\/"},"modified":"2021-09-21T10:11:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T10:11:19","slug":"muhanga-based-cooperative-of-coffee-farmers-dominates-awards-at-kombe-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/muhanga-based-cooperative-of-coffee-farmers-dominates-awards-at-kombe-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Muhanga-based cooperative dominates awards at \u2018Kombe la dhahabu\u2019 contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kombe la Dhahabu means \u2018golden cup\u2019 in Swahili.   <\/p>\n<p>The contest organized by Fairtrade Africa, is taking place in different African countries with a view to promote and market the continent\u2019s coffee nationally and internationally. <\/p>\n<p>Fairtrade Africa (FTA) is the umbrella network organisation representing Fairtrade certified producers and workers in Africa. It has four regional networks \u2013 Eastern and Central Africa; Southern Africa; Western Africa; and the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The contest is scheduled to take place in countries including Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda. <\/p>\n<p>The contest held in Kigali on 17th September 2021 brought together 28 coffee producers where \u2018Abateraninkunga ba Sholi\u2019 won the two first positions out of the top ten awarded producers. <\/p>\n<p>The winners were crowned \u2018Specialty Coffee Ambassadors\u2019 and will be sponsored to attend big specialty coffee events to gain marketing and business skills, and create market connections.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to that, their coffee samples are distributed in Europe and North America among other consumer locations.<\/p>\n<p>Getahun Gebrekidan Getahun Gebrekidan, the regional programs manager in charge of coffee and tea at Fairtrade Africa said that the contest was organized to boost the capacity of coffee producers to compete internationally.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis contest came to boost quality standards among coffee producers because we intend to select the best coffee in Africa. It means that everyone will earmark much effort to produce coffee of high quality. Besides, they will participate in renowned coffee competitions helping them to market their produce globally,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>Winners expressed delight with the recognition highlighting that it encourages them to maintain hard work. <\/p>\n<p>Aimable Nshimiye, an accountant at Abaterankunga ba Sholi attributed the performance to a stern process involved in coffee production. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe work closely with farmers and train them on best techniques to handle the produce from plantations. We delegated agronomists to monitor coffee farming activities to ensure the supply of desired quality coffee. Our plant also has drying facilities helping us to maintain standards,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>Nshimiye explained that winning the contest will open new horizons for Rwanda\u2019s coffee at the global market.  <\/p>\n<p>Winners will also compete with selected best producers from other countries where the contest is taking place and participate in different international exhibitions like CAF\u00c9 SHOW Korea, AFCA, SCA, WOC and SCAJ. <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda has 355 771 coffee farmers of whom 68% are women.   <\/p>\n<p>Kombe la Dhahabu contest also encourages value addition and fair income distribution by producing and commercializing quality coffees, the producers guarantee sustainable production processes. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39570 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mu_gupima_ik238c-4dcd6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39564 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abagize_akanc760-d173e.jpg\" alt=\"The contest involved a stern process to select winners.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39571 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umuyobozi_ushinzwe_ibikorwa_muri_fairtrade_africa_getahun.jpg\" alt=\"Getahun Gebrekidan Getahun Gebrekidan, the regional programs manager in charge of coffee and tea at Fairtrade Africa said that the contest was organized to boost the capacity of coffee producers to compete internationally.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39565 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abatsinze_ba5dcb-6caee.jpg\" alt=\"Winners expressed delight for the recognition.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39566 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abatunga_ikadcd0-971fa.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39568 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aima.jpg\" alt=\"Aimable Nshimiye, an accountant at &#039;Abaterankunga ba Sholi&#039; attributed the performance to a stern process involved in coffee production. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39567 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abitabiriye_f241-ff822.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{\u2018Abateraninkunga ba Sholi\u2019, a cooperative of farmers growing coffee in Cyeza sector, Muhanga district in Southern Province have won the two first positions at Kombe la dhahabu contest aimed at awarding coffee producers with outstanding quality coffee.}  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-44437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44437"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44437"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}