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Ubwiza bw’ikawa literally means “the beauty of Coffee” but the implied meaning is “Benefits of Coffee”.

UBWIZABW’IKAWA Cooperative was born in 2008 with main activity of collecting the production (cherries) of the members to b forwarded in the existing coffee washing station of the state to avoid cases of theft during weighing and payment that farmers were compromised with and at the same time to realize some gains of this activity.) Other motivation behind the creation of the cooperative was to:

• Build their own coffee washing plant at the nearest of producers to reduce the long distance they had to walk,
• Directly participate in the chain value of coffee by avoiding all middlemen,
• Direct access market and increase the revenue of farmers to improve their livelihood.

The cooperative built the washing station since 2009 and it became functional in 2011 etc. During the year 2012, the cooperative met with others and created a Union of the cooperatives of coffee growers known as ‘COCOCA’ to facilitate the promotion of their coffee and develop other complementary services. In 2013, thanks to the good will of cooperators and facilitation of COCOCA, the cooperative was Fairtrade certification under the ID above mentioned.

The cooperative counts more than 1308 members but that supply their productions to the cooperative among them 472 are women and more than 1800 nonmembers but that supply their productions to the cooperative among them 623 are women. The cooperative has three certificates ( Fairtrade , Utz and Ra), the type of pulper machine used( Mc Kinon: 3t/h).

Farmers;

EVANGELINE BUKURU
ANASTASE SHUMBUSHA
EUZEBIE HABONIMANA
APPOLINNAIRE NSABIMANA
GENEVIEVE BURENGENGWA
NESTOR NSAGUYE
GERARD HAVYARIMANA
ETIENNE NSABUMWAMI
EVARISTE NDAYISHIMIYE
JOSEPH GATWA
GABRIEL BUCUMI
BAPTISTE NYABENDA
NESTOR MINANI
DANIEL MINANI
DIONESE NZISBIRA
ALOYS NIYIBIZI
LABAN NDAYIZEYE
BDAMASCENE NSENGIYUMVA
EUPHEMIE MIBURO
MARIANNE MIBURO
STANY NYANDZI
PASCAL NTAMAVUKIRO
SALVATOR MVUKIYINGOMA
SYLVIE CIZA
EDYSSA KANYANA
DIOMEDE NTAKIRUTIMANA
SPES MUSHABARI
REGINE NYABENDA
NICODEME NGENDAKUMANA
JEAN NSENGIYUMVA
JOSEPH RUKANURAMASO
VITAL NGENDAKURIYO
JACQUES NYANDWI
J DAMASCENE MIBURO
JACQUES NYANDWI
PASCAL KAYOBERA
STANY AHIGOBETSE
DOMITHILE NTIHABOOSE
JOSEPH NYABENDA
GERVAIS NYANDWI
DOMITHILE NYANDWI
SALVATOR NSHIMIRIMANA
PATRICIE NYABENDA
BEATRICE MIBURO
MARCELLINE NZOKIRANTEVYE
ZACHARIE RUHANGINTWARI
M ROSE COYIREREYE
COME KAYOBERA