The Gatare washing station produces and processes only the Bourbon Rouge variety.
The coffee comes from around 575 smallholders who own around 500 trees each, which equates to around 400,000 coffee trees in total.
After the Wet Mill, fermentation, grading and manual sorting, the coffee is sun-dried on African beds for an average of 21 days.
The washing station has many ambitions and aims to ensure the traceability of the coffee produced as well as to have a positive impact in the village by improving the lives of producers.
The region benefits from fertile soils, tropical rainfall and temperatures conducive to the production of high quality coffee. The plantations are at an altitude of 2050m on sandy-clay soil with volcanic aspects, and rainfall varies between 1200 and 1500mm.