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OUR BURUNDIAN COFEE, YOUR PRIDE

Micosta’s exquisite Arabica Bourbon grows over 155 hectares in Muyinga province in northern Burundi, near the borders with Tanzania and Rwanda.
The subtropical highland climate, sandy soil, and the 1,700-1,800m altitude are all key factors in producing our coffee’s delicious flavours.

We work with 3,750 smallholder farmers who cultivate the Jackson Bourbon variety of Arabica. The best lots from this region are often referred to as ‘Ngoma Mild’, in recognition of the sacred drums often used in traditional ceremonies. Our mission is to develop the coffee culture in Burundi by working directly with coffee growers, and to support the women associations who provide us with our coffee.

We produce fully washed AA, A, 15+, B, TT Arabica coffee, and export green coffee beans.

Contact Micosta for ethical Burundi Arabica that supports local communities

About Us

Coffee profits return to the community

Micosta is a female-owned and led coffee company, founded in 2012 as the Burundi coffee industry opened up to privatization. Today, we have over 27,000 coffee trees, and two coffee washing and de-pulping stations.

Our vision is to provide our customers with a top-of-the-range product that, in turn, improves the income of our coffee growers. As such, we use coffee profits to benefit our farming communities.

We support and train local farmers in producing high quality coffee. Our coffee growers use their wages to buy school uniforms and other materials, metal sheets to cover their houses, loincloths for women, and any agriculture products they need.

At Micosta, we work to:
  • continually increase the quantity and quality of our coffee
  • support and train our farmers to grow the best quality coffee
  • gain certification to ensure our farmers are remunerated accordingly
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Our Coffee

From seed to green coffee – it’s all in the process

Micosta’s coffee seeds are grown in nurseries, watered frequently and shaded from sunlight until they are big enough to plant. We plant our coffee trees during the rainy season.

Once planted in the fields, coffee growers make straw, fertilize, prune and de-worm their fields. It takes about 3 or 4 years for the coffee trees to fruit and produce cherries.

We only harvest the perfectly red cherries. They are delivered to the mill within a few hours of picking. There, they are graded, floated and sorted by hand prior to de-pulping.

The pulped coffee is then double fermented: dry for 12-18 hours dry, followed by wet for 12-18 hours. After fermentation, the coffee is washed thoroughly and further graded in channels. It is then dried on raised and shaded beds for 2-3 weeks, or until an optimum moisture content of 12% is reached.

We quality check the coffee throughout processing. At the drying stage, we turn the beans by hand at regular intervals to encourage consistent drying and prevent over fermentation and mould.

Finally, the beans are processed into parchment, and then into green coffee. We use high quality Grain Pro and Ecotact bags to package our coffee for export.

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Our Locations

Our natural region is BWERU, present-day Muyinga Province.

Located in the north of the country, it borders with Tanzania
and Rwanda. It has a subtropical highland climate.The
ground is sandy with an altitude between 1700 and 1800 m.

Station NDAVA

BURUNDI – MUYINGA – GASORWE – KIREMBA

Our Values

Our Burundian Cofee, Your Pride

Our Values

  • Entrepreneurship is the center of our work
  • Passion is the pillar of our Company
  • Professionalism is at the center of our commitment in this area
  • Confidence is our concern to keep our customers well
  • Leadership

Our Mission

Our mission is to develop the culture of coffee, work with coffee growers and encourage and supervise the associations of women and young people who bring us cherry coffee for the production of quality coffee from their coffee trees. Contribute to the production of quality coffees and the development of our country

Our Vision

Our vision is to approach our customers to provide them with a top-of-the-range product in order to improve the income of coffee growers by offering them the right price so that they can draw profiles at all levels. We hope in the near future to proceed with the certification of our pulping stations. We also intend to provide customers with a roasted product.
Our Clients

Testimonials

With honest responsible leaders, MICOSTA has always honoured its contracts and improves the quality of its coffee every year. We continue to expand through our companies in country, including Bugestal [representative company in Burundi], and we plan to collaborate more in the years to come.
Luis - Sucafina,
Genève, Switzerland
Some Cool Facts

Our Burundian Cofee,
Your Pride

coffee washing
pulping stations
ready-to-pick
coffee plants

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