Gatare Station
Location: Macuba Sector, Nyamasheke District
Built: 2012
Manager: NDAYIRAGIJE Edourd
Altitude: 1542m-1857m
Annual Rainfall: 1200mm - 1300mm
Soil Type: Sandy Loam
Coffee Process: fully washed, natural, honey
Gatare washing station is located in the Macuba sector, Nyamasheke district. The station is located in localities that surround Kivu lake and a few miles from the Nyungwe forest. Generally, coffee from Gatare washing stations comes from the Kivu belt and the mountains of the Nyungwe forest edges.
Gatare washing station is more than a business. We call it a family within 25 permanent employees more than 20 of them are here for more than a decade. It is for that reason Gatare washing station has been a place where IMPEXCOR conducts most of its research and trials of the new coffee process. Gatare station was the first station to produce the natural and honey process. Believe me, we are the best in those processes.