Just Picasso Nduwayo Coffee background, Hope, Love and Processes, Uganda 2022
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.
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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. He started as a washing station Manager then promoted to Quality control manager back to Burundi then came to run a washing station in Uganda as Managing Director of Manafwa Specialty Seeds, Ltd. He believes in the positive role coffee business plays in the coffee farming community. “If you see how many farmers get paid because of coffee and send their kids to school and pay health bills, as well as do different projects, this touches me much. It's more than coffee beans, it's part of the life”.
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Just Picasso responsibilities if to make sure the coffee cherries received if ripe and floated and ensure the quality coffee is processed according to the standard from pulping to drying by fermentation. Coffee bean processing is a very delicate business and requires supervision. Tea includes floating coffee cherries in water and pulping, fermentation and drying. The coffee is dried at below 12% of moisture content. All these steps take place at a so called washing station.
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Just Picasso loves coffee as it is the only beverage which is more than a drink or money. It is one of the commodities worldwide that connects countries and billions of people as it impacts farmers, producers, buyers and consumers.
He envisions a future were the quality of life for coffee farmers is significantly improved and communities in eastern Uganda where a coffee farmer can earn a good living through coffee projects by connecting farmers especially those in cooperative and associations to Buyers.
Apart from being a coffee guy, he is a blogger on different magazines and on his personal blog http://zeraction.over-blog.com/2015/10/youth-integration-in-east-african-community.html
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