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  Juste Picasso Nduwayo, the young coffee farmer who is changing the coffee game in Burundi      Juste Picasso is a Burundian YALI RLC Kenya Alumni , cohort 12 and he is a coffee farmer and producer with more than nine years of experience in countries like Burundi, #Tanzania, #Uganda and #Malawi. He is the co-founder and Managing Director of Burundi Seeds Specialty(BSS Bdi) since July 2017.  “BSS Bdi is a specialty coffee business whose primary functions are, farming, breeding, acquiring coffee, processing and selling. We also have a washing station named “UMUCO coffee washing station” and both of them are located in #Muruta in the #Kayanza province”, tells us Juste Picasso  Coffee farming is a very sustainable business, connects different countries and is profitable both to the farmers and the country’s economy. This is  what motivated Juste Nduwayo, Zephyrin Banzubaze and Jeremie Nakimuhana to start BSS Bdi. As a company in the agribusiness, they fac...

 Juste Picasso Nduwayo Uganda Coffee background, Hope, Love and Processes Bulambuli and Bukalasi coffee Microlots were processed by Juste Picasso Nduwayo from Burundi who is running a washing station  station for production of Darley Investments specialty coffee in Uganda. He has been working for 9    years in coffee business and six  years into Uganda coffee business and process.  https://www.coffeemaxgreen.com/gishubi-burundi/ He brought new way of  processing coffee into Fully washed by making 24 hour double fermentation and Natural coffee by   making a yeast fermentation which increases the quality of Uganda coffee. The varietal is mainly SL14 and 28 with some Nyasaland trees remaining from old days. The coffee is  collected from Mukoto to Bulambuli via Bukalasi at the slopes of Mount Elgon Mountain at the elevation of 1600-2200 MASL. Juste Picasso, a graduate of the university of Burundi in 2012, entered coffee business in 2014. H...

Coffee in Burundi: Story Behind   By  Agha Haider Raza                     During peak coffee harvest season, Juste Picasso takes a bus for the two-and-a-half-hour journey from his home in Burundi’s capital to Kayanza. He then sits on a motorbike from Kayanza to reach his washing station in the countryside town of Muruta. Despite the mind-numbing repetition of driving and riding all those kilometers, Picasso enjoys the turns of the road as he gets to see a beautiful landscape filled with hills, palm trees, coffee trees, tea plantations and a protected forest. He just hopes it doesn’t rain, as it gets difficult to find a motorbike taxi to get to Muruta.                     Picasso, a graduate of the University of Burundi, entered the coffee industry in 2014. He started as a washing station manager and then was promoted to quality control, sifting through ...