About Us
Mahembe is a family-owned company, founded by Justin Musabyimana in 2010.
Justin grew up in the local area and after 1994 genocide against Tusti, he decided to come back home and invest in the community by building a wet mill on his father’s coffee plantation. He has a 10-hectare farm of his own, and buys cherries from the surrounding smallholders. Justin’s organized operations, plus the work he is doing on the ground to improve quality, gives great results in the cup. Mahembe operates 2 washing station in western region of Rwanda
Our Vision
To become a regional Quality leader and consistently differentiating ourselves by delivering exclusively the best product through a completely sustainable and transparent value chain that significantly contributes to the better lives of farmers.
Gituntu Farm
Gituntu Farm is our largest Farm with 14 Hectares and located on altitude of 1800-2000 meters from our washing station Mahembe . This is a unique coffee in Rwanda because all of the cherries are produced on one farm where we are able to control the growing conditions.
Murondo Farm
Murundo farm is our second largest farm with 13 hectares and new one it is located on thealtitude of 2000-2100 meters. located near the Nyungwe forest belt.
Gatare Farm
Gatare farm is the eldest farm that was created after the returning of Justin at home it has 8 hectares, located on altitude of 1700-1900 meter, its coffee is mostly known of having citrus taste and cleanness
Nyagatare Washing Station
Nyagatare coffee is 100% red bourbon coffee grown in Mahembe Sector, Nyamasheke District in the western Province of Rwanda. This area constitutes of big range of high chained mountains of the country with altitude ranging between 1700-2100m above sea level. This part is on the high mountains of Rwanda.
Currently nyagatare washing station works with over 675 coffee producers grouped under the Abatarushwa Cooperative supplying coffee direct to Coffee washing station (500 tons of coffee cherries/Season).
This coffee is processed with the fully washed processing method, using natural spring water from high mountains located near Nyungwe forest Farmers are trained to harvest only ripen coffee cherries from their farm trees.
During the harvest, nyagatare washing station have very strict routines for cherry reception and sorting, cherry delivered by farmers must be sorted by the farmers themselves, if this is not done sufficiently there are staff who will do further sorting. The cherries are placed in a tank prior to pulping where floaters are removed and processed separately as lower grade coffee
Nyarubuye Washing station
Nyarubuye coffee is 100% red bourbon coffee grown in Twumba Sector, Karongi District in the western Province of Rwanda. This area constitutes of large range of high chained mountains of the country with altitude ranging between 2000-2200 above sea level. This part is located near Nyungwe forest.
Currently nyarubuye washing station works with over 256 coffee producers supplying coffee direct to Coffee washing station (250 tons of coffee cherries/Season).
This coffee is processed with the fully washed processing method, using natural spring water.
Farmers are trained to harvest only ripen coffee cherries from their farm trees. During the harvest, nyarubuye washing station have very strict routines for cherry reception and sorting, cherry delivered by farmers must be sorted by the farmers themselves, if this is not done sufficiently there are staff who will do further sorting. The cherries are placed in a tank prior to pulping where floaters are removed and processed separately as lower grade coffee
