Rwanda: Muyongwe Wins 2007 Golden Cup
September 6, 2007
The Golden Cup cupping competition was organized by OCIR CAFÉ and USAID/SPREAD as a way to promote Rwandan growers and roasters. The tiny landlocked African country has been ravaged by genocide and civil war for decades, but their high tropical, volcanic soil provides excellent growing conditions for quality coffees. Until recently Rwanda was an unknown in global specialty coffee but they are working to change that. Timothy Schilling, Director of USAID/SPREAD, was very proud of the event’s success and the coffee that it produced:
“I am sure Rwanda will be the best country in the whole world to export high quality coffee in the next five years,”
Schilling also believes that in the not to distant future Rwanda will offer some serious competition for established specialty coffee giants like Costa Rica, Colombia and Jamaica.
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