Type of coffee: arabica
Volume(in metric tons): 31000 Mt in 2006
Brand name of burundi speciality coffee: Ngoma mild coffee
Marketing system: Tenders and direct sale
Processing: Wet processing
Harvest season: february –june
Port of shipment: Dar-es salaam
Export destinations: Belgium, Germany, Holland, Japan, Australia and the United States

Burundi is a small and beautifull landalocked country at the crossroads of East and Central Africa, straddling the crest of Nile-Congo watershed. Sandwiched between Rwanda, the demiocratic republic of Congo and Tanzania, Burundi has magnificent views over Lake Tanganyika which provides much of its western border.
This is a country dominated by hills and mountains, with considerable altitude variation .The lowest point in the country is 772 meters at the Lake Tanganyika, while the highest soars to 2670 meters above sea level at the tip of Mount Heha.

The first arabica coffee tree in Burundi was introduced by the Belgians in the early 1930s and has been growing in the country ever since.
Coffee cultivation is an entirely small holder based activity with over 800.000 families directly involved in coffee farming with a total acreage of 60.000 hectares in the whole country with about 25 millions of coffee tree.
Burundi coffee falls into mild arabica category grown in the world and it is known as among the best ones grown in the Eastern africa region because its quality is inherent to the hills and mountains where is cultivated at altitudes ranging from 1250 and 2000 meters above sea level.
Another thing to note is that each farmer is tendering abount 50 to 250 trees
Burundi coffee is of the arabica species though some robusta producrion also exists. Of the total production, arabica coffee represents 96 % , the reminder is robusta.
The most successfull variety grown to date is Bourbon and constitutes the majority on nearly all farms.