Deep-roasted coffee beans suitable for espresso Cameroon Burundi National Coffee Supervision Agency

Burundi

Aromatic, mild coffee from war-torn areas.

Burundi has one of the most diverse and successful coffee industries in the world, and it has its own characteristics. Coffee was introduced to the country by Belgian colonists in 1930 and is now grown only on small farms. Unfortunately, many of these farms are located on the border with war-torn Rwanda, putting pressure on coffee production. Coffee produced in Burundi is almost exclusively Arabica beans, while coffee trees in Ngozi are grown at more than 1200 meters above sea level. Burundi coffee is aromatic and rich in flavor, with excellent acidity, and most of the products are exported to the United States, Germany, Finland and Japan.

Cameroon

Dark roasted coffee beans suitable for espresso.

Arabica coffee trees were first cultivated in Cameroon in 1913 as Blue Mountain coffee from Jamaica, but the country also produces robert coffee in large quantities. The quality and characteristics of Cameroonian coffee are comparable to those of South American coffee. The best coffee in the country comes from Bamileke and Bamoun in the north-west. Here, it also grows some giant coffee beans and bean-berry coffee.

Beginning in the late 1980s, Cameroon's coffee production declined, from 1.8 million bags of robert coffee in 1987 to 1.1 million bags in 1990, and from 400,000 bags to 200,000 bags of arabica coffee in the same period. Now, thanks to tighter regulation by the National Coffee Supervisory Agency, coffee production and quality may be picking up.