Ruera Estate is a 190-hectare coffee farm located 15 kilometers from Ruiru. The estate employs up to 1000 workers. Housing is provided for full time workers & schooling is provided on the estate for workers children.
The coffee was processed by the washed method. Once harvested, coffee cherries are sorted to remove under/over-ripe cherries, defects & foreign material. They are then de-pulped, dry-fermented, washed, soaked in fresh water & then sun-dried on raised beds.
region Kiambu County
farm/farmer Kofinaf
altitude 1577 meters
crop 2025
cultivar SL26, SL34, Ruiru 11, Batian
process Washed
SL28 was bred by Scott Laboratories in 1931 using various coffees from Ethiopia, Sudan & Yemen. SL34 is a mutation of French Mission Bourbon selected by Scott Laboratories in the '30s. Ruiru 11 was bred in 1985 at the Coffee Research Station in Ruiru. The aim was for a coffee plant with high resistance to coffee leaf rust & coffee berry disease. Batian, [named after the highest peak of Mt. Kenya] was bred at the Coffee Research Station for disease resistance & released in 2010.
Ripe coffee at Ruera Estate.
Coffee cherry hopper at Ruera Estate.
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