Rwanda says “Happy International Coffee Day”
Today is the International Coffee Day
Join us to wish a special day to all coffee lovers. To our passionate farmers, traders, consumers and sector partners at large: we honor your efforts in making our journey (since 1900s) a success. Our cup is now the best experience ever!
This cash crop was introduced in Rwanda in 1904 by Germany missionaries. In 1935 coffee production greatly increased, becoming the main cash crop for many farmers, but it was mostly low-grade coffee and its consumption was limited to local missionaries.
The following decades, coffee became the sole crop to be the source of income for the country until in 1960s when tea was introduced. The crop for export remained since then the source of livelihoods for thousands of farmers, until today where we count about 400,000 households.
Happy International Coffee Day