NAHIMANA Gaspard

58 years old.

5 children. 2 boys, 3 girls.

Yes, this house below is mine.

I started coffee farming in 2015.

Our late president, whenever I watched him planting coffee I could admire that and I started doing that.

Yes, he was.

This plantation contains 300 trees.

First of all, I like it because of the right income. And I like it because my father traded in coffee and got much money from it. But we uprooted the coffee trees my father owned.

The first challenge we have is that of fertilizer, we never get enough of fertilizer. And sometimes we find ourselves doing things we don’t really understand. We do not always get people teaching us how it is done correctly and we find ourselves doing things we don’t understand.

There is a huge change in our family, because if you are going for your salary the first thing that hits your heart is joy. And you take care of the family needs. So you change your clothes and those of your children. Since I started coffee farming I even have a child who is in university. There is no problem that he is facing regarding school fees. So the money I get from the coffee helps a lot.

I want to develop this coffee farming and one day I want to buy a very expensive car. Because I like coffee farming so much, that is why I am putting all my strength in it. Right know I have 3800 trees of coffee. I want to grow up to 5000.

Yes, I will. Because it is my goal and it is what I decided to do. And also I want to teach and train my children to like it and do the same thing I do.

My children like the coffee trees, whenever I am laying down the grasses they come with me and they enjoy doing it. They like it very much.

This year I didn’t get much harvest. Last year, I harvest 700 kilograms of coffee. And my coffee was not grown yet, they were still baby trees. But I hope and see that next year I will get much more harvest.

This year I got 360 kilos. This year the harvest was not good. Coffee cannot produce twice a year.