DR Congo FTO Gera Micro-Station

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Flavor notes: Sugary sweetness and mouthfeel with tart acidity; molasses, cola, grapefruit, and cherry flavors.

SOPACDI (Solidarité Paysanne pour la Promotion des Actions Café et Development Intégral) is an organization comprising more than 5,600 farmers, roughly 20 percent of whom are women, located near Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Each farmer has a very small area of farmland for coffee (fewer than 2 hectares on average), and tenders cherries to SOPACDI through the organization's 10 collection subgroups.

  • Origin: Democratic Republic of Congo
  • COOP: SOPACDI - Solidarité Paysanne pour la Promotion des Actions Café et Development Intégral
  • Variety: Bourbon, Caturra, Catuai
  • Altitude: 1600-1800 masl
  • Process: Fully Washed
  • Harvest: March - July
  • Certifications: Organic, Fair Trade
  • Crop Year: 2023
  • Landed: February 17, 2023

SOPACDI (Solidarité Paysanne pour la Promotion des Actions Café et Development Intégral) is an organization comprising more than 5,600 farmers, roughly 20 percent of whom are women, located near Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Each farmer has a very small area of farmland for coffee (fewer than 2 hectares on average), and tenders cherries to SOPACDI through the organization's 10 collection subgroups.

Pygmies' Coffee Project & Women Producer Program at SOPACDI:
These specific offerings come from a group of 105 Pygmy people (including 51 women) who live and farm in the villages of Mishebere and Ruhunde in the Kahele territory. Historically, Pygmy people have faced terrible discrimination and disenfranchisement, including being forced into slavery and/or low-paying work. SOPACDI has started this project to source and keep separate coffee from this group of growers in order to provide them a better income from specialty coffee as well as more financial independence and autonomy. The producers each own an average of 0.5 hectares and deliver coffee in cherry form to the washing station.

Fair Trade Organic
It is very common in DR Congo for growers to be members of a certified co-op. Fair Trade Organic lots from DR Congo are separated out from larger day lots basis some differentiation such as grower demographics (community, gender) or cup quality.

Fully Washed
Fully Washed coffee is the norm at many washing stations, or central processing units, which are shared by groups of smallholder producers. Typically, coffee is delivered in its cherry form to the washing station the day it is harvested, and there it will be depulped and fermented in open-air tanks for 12–18 hours. Often the fermented coffee will then be soaked for another 8–12 hours before being passed through the washing channels, where the mucilage is removed and the coffee is sorted. In some cases, the coffee will be soaked again for an additional 12 hours, but in other cases it will be moved to the drying beds. It will be dried for an average of 20–30 days.


The Democratic Republic of Congo has a main crop that is harvested March - July. They also have a fly crop that is harvested September - January. 

Typically new crops arrive October - December. 


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