Barasamaje Damien

I am 59 years old

11 children

We live well.

We started when we were 21 years old. Many years ago.

What made us think about starting cultivating coffee was that we were searching for well-being in our families. We saw that coffee was giving good production in comparison to other crops. So that is why we focused on the coffee.

It is not small. The problem is that we have different small parts. The land is around 4 hectare in total.

In total we have 1200 coffee trees.

Happiness is just that we plant and harvest. And that the children can get something to eat.

With the money I got from the coffee plants, I was able to buy more land.

The problems of getting grasses to put around the coffee trees. It is very difficult because it asks just me to pay workers who help me to put the grasses in the land, so to make sure the lands look well.

Since I started to cultivate coffee, I can say that life went well. I am not desperate. I am always happy, but the price is still small. That is why I lose hope.

My dreams are to make sure that things keep developing. That things develop in a better way than where I am currently. For instance, I bought lands, but I wish to get other things like transportation. However, I think I will not get it because of the price of coffee. The price of coffee is very small and I sometimes miss money to pay the workers on my land. What I can add is to ask the state to give us cows and get natural fertilizers to put in the coffee land.