{"id":8316,"date":"2018-03-30T07:57:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T07:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8316"},"modified":"2018-03-30T12:51:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T12:51:05","slug":"measures-taken-for-smooth-running-of-2018-2019-coffee-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/measures-taken-for-smooth-running-of-2018-2019-coffee-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Measures taken for smooth running of 2018-2019 coffee season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effective measures have been taken so as to boost the performance of coffee companies during the 2018-2019 campaign. This was said by the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, this Thursday, March 29, during a press conference on the preparation of coffee season.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5155\" style=\"width: 362px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5155\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-5155\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D\u00e9o-Guide-Rurema-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"D\u00e9o-Guide Rurema: \u201cCoffee alone brings more than 60% of the foreign currency resulting from exports\u201d.\" width=\"352\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D\u00e9o-Guide-Rurema-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D\u00e9o-Guide-Rurema-600x515.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D\u00e9o-Guide-Rurema.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">D\u00e9o-Guide Rurema: \u201cCoffee alone brings more than 60% of the foreign currency resulting from exports\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cTransit centers are prohibited in the areas covered by the pulping and washing stations. Each washing station must have data sheets for coffee growers and a reliable weighing system, calibrated, covered and certified by the national standardization office-BBN,\u201d says D\u00e9o-Guide Rurema, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, adding that the payment in cash is strictly forbidden.<\/p>\n<p>He also says the payment will be made in two installments and the purchase price of the cherry coffee is fixed at 500 BIF per kg.<\/p>\n<p>Rurema says an advance can be granted by the washing station to a producer who requests it but cannot exceed 20% of the production already delivered.<\/p>\n<p>He says there will be a marketing assessment to evaluate the performance of each company.<br \/>\nThe Agriculture Minister also says coffee alone brings more than 60% of the foreign currency resulting from exports. &#8220;It is one of the crops grown primarily by small scale producers and their income depends on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the 2016-2017 coffee season, the production was 14,674 tons of green coffee. For the 2017-2018 coffee season, the figures are 15,864 tonnes while the expected production will be around 20,000 tonnes for the 2018-2019 coffee season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective measures have been taken so as to boost the performance of coffee companies during the 2018-2019 campaign. This was said by the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, this Thursday, March 29, during a press conference on the preparation of coffee season. \u201cTransit centers are prohibited in the areas covered by the pulping and washing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":5155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,670],"tags":[45,765],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8317,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316\/revisions\/8317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}