Coffee in Burundi introduced by the Belgians in the early 1930 s and has been growing in the country since that time
Burundi is a country dominated by hills and mountains with considerable alltitude variation where coffee terroirs lie
The lowest point is 772 meters at the Lake Tanganyika while the highest soars to 2670 meters above sea level at the tip of Mount Heha.
The coffee plantings cover an area of 60.000 hectares on small scale.
About 800000 households depends on coffee farming for their livelihood
Each farmer is tendering about 50-250 coffee trees
Coffee constitutes the first agricultural ressource as well as the largest source of export revenues(more than 80% of the total export revenues)