Egide Murindababisha founded the Rusave Farmers' Coffee Cooperative (RFCC) in 2013 with 35 members in Rusave village, Rwanda. RFCC now has 115 members and over 63,000 coffee trees, promoting coffee cultivation and quality. Its mission is to improve members' welfare through coffee planting by providing training, seedlings, fertilizer and building a coffee washing station for higher quality beans. RFCC operates under Rwandan cooperative law and aims to increase coffee production, care for trees, and facilitate teamwork among local farmers.

1. RFCC Profile
1. FOUNDER PROFILE
Egide is an energetic, self-motivated and result oriented worker who is very willing to
learn and acquire new knowledge and skills. He is dealing with a Bachelors degree of
Information Technology (I.T) in department of Information Management, where he is
just writing his dissertation. He is proficient, in computer skills like programming and
data network and able to handle any computer problem and account person with
distinction diploma in accounting from high school,
1.1.EGIDE’S FARMING HISTORY
Egide grew up when the family having the farming background rearing pigs, cow and
having a small firm of coffee plantation.
Thereafter the death of his parents he continued with the idea with little idea not until
he developed the idea to have the firming business and started utilizing remnant that
helped him to continue his studies getting money from the firming and is on his final
year waiting for graduation.
He is having now 5,000 coffee trees on two hectors where he is having ten hectors
remaining and thinking of increasing coffee plantation.
1.2.THE SOURCE OF AN IDEA
The idea of forming RFCC cooperative was started by Egide Murindababisha, after
realizing that is one of who is having more coffee plantation, he started to cooperate
with the local coffee farmers aiming to get training and support of equipment’s from
National Export and Agriculture Development Board (NAEB), the first meeting took
place on October 1st,
2013 which was attended by 35 local coffee farmers at Rusave
village.

2. 2. RUSAVE FARMERS’COFFEE COOPERATIVE (RFCC)
2.1.AN OVERVIEW OF RFCC
As Rwanda recovers from the divesting in genocide of 1994, the development of new
sources of national revenue assumes critical importance. In the past, coffee had been
an important export crop, but the quality of the final product was poor because of the
lack of modern processing methods and facilities, despite the high quality of trees and
perfect growing conditions. After genocide many coffee cooperatives were created
and being supported with National Agriculture and Export Board (NAEB) currently.
MISSION: RFCC amalgamates
coffee farmers in the area for
improving welfare of its members
through coffee plantation.
VISION: producing standard
quality coffee that’s needed at the
market place.
Rusave Farmers’ Coffee Cooperative <<RFCC>> started with 35 members who grew to 115
members with more than 63,000 coffee trees in less than one year. This led to increase coffee
trees in Kayonza district and taking care on the harvested trees to improve coffee harvest in area.
The RFCC has a certificate of legal status No RCA/ 0693/ 2014 on 07/08/2014, issued by
Rwanda Cooperative Agency (RCA) that certificate gave RFCC a courage of searching for the
authorization of building a coffee washing station (CWS) after realizing a common problem of
lacking factories which can process coffee beans that yielded poor quality of coffee.

3. 2.2.TERMS OF AGREEMENT
RFCC abides bylaws of the cooperative as pursuant to Law n◦ 50/2007 of
18/09/2007 determining the establishment, organization and functioning of
Cooperative Organizations in Rwanda, as amended to date; Cooperative share
capital had fixed at one hundred and twenty thousand francs(120,000 frw) which
must be paid by each members in period, the shares will be based on each farmers
coffee harvests and cooperative may receive donations, legacy and aids.
3. LOCATION OF RUSAVE FARMERS’ COFFEE COOPERATIVE
The RFCC is located in Kayonza District, Murama sector which is a center of four sectors
(4 sectors) where RFCC’s members come from.
4. OBJECTIF OF THE PROJECT
 To facilitate and improve welfare of RFCC’s member
 To promote the welfare of local farmers by working together
 To increase the standard of caring on coffee trees
 To provide team working and facilitate local farmers to get seedlings and fertilizer.
 To help each other.

4. 5. THE BENEFICIARIES OF THIS PROJECT
 The shareholders of Rusave Farmers coffee Cooperative (RFCC)
The RFCC are having 115 members as it is mentioned from the above and is expected
to exceed due to the fact that each year RFCC has implemented a strategy of increasing
coffee plantation in the area. So, RFCC prepare coffee seedlings that are distributed to
the local farmers in that the production be increased as it is shown below:
Coffee Nursery bed 2014
Among its member, 110 are married with depends equivalent to 455, so they are
farmers based on agriculture as its source of income.
11. OTHER ACTIVITIES
After forming a cooperative the RFCC came out with an ideal of pig farming stemmed
from the need of helping <<Rusave Farmers’ Coffee Cooperative (RFCC) >>members for
being able to get organic fertilizer and against poverty, Pigs husbandry also it will help
RFCC to earn some money on that business from two parts(investors and farmer)
Today RFCC cooperative has a number of pigs’ equivalent to thirty (30) farming by thirty
(30) coffee farmers who are located within four sectors.