Our mission is to connect the volcanic soils of North Kivu with chocolate makers around the world through transparent, direct trade — and to keep more of that trade's value in eastern DR Congo.
Kivu Origins is the export brand of a partnership between two businesses that each solve half of a hard problem. Ets Kambale Machozi is the production and export side: based at 80, Bd Nyamwisi in Beni, North Kivu, it runs the farms, the collection network, the fermentation and drying infrastructure, the warehouse and the export licence. Golf Trading is the commercial side: a single, accountable point of contact for international buyers, handling prospecting, negotiation and order follow-through.
That division matters more than it sounds. Buyers who source from eastern DR Congo usually face one of two failure modes: an excellent producer who cannot answer an email in a buyer's language or timezone, or a slick intermediary with no real control over what happens at the fermentation box. We were built specifically so that neither is true here.
We own and operate cacao farms in North Kivu, and we work with a supervised network of family growers and cooperatives across North Kivu and Ituri. Our own estates set the protocol — variety selection, pruning, harvest timing, fermentation regime — and our field teams carry that same protocol out to every partner plot. Beans are collected, fermented for six days in wooden boxes with turning every 48 hours, dried naturally on raised racks under shelter, then graded, cut-tested and bagged at our Beni warehouse before export.
Cacao is our flagship, but it is not the ceiling. Eastern DR Congo also grows exceptional arabica, vanilla, and specialty spices, and the infrastructure that moves a container of cocoa to Mombasa moves those too. Building as an origin company rather than a cocoa exporter means the relationships, compliance systems and traceability spine we are laying down now will carry whatever we add next.
The company selling you beans is the company that grew and fermented them. There is no anonymous aggregation step where quality and traceability both quietly disappear.
You deal with a named person on our commercial desk who can reach the warehouse manager the same day. No broker chain, no forwarded emails.
Geolocation, cut tests, moisture logs and lab bulletins are produced because we run on them internally — not assembled retroactively when a buyer asks.
We would rather hold a smaller book of buyers over multiple crops than churn spot cargoes. Field visits and third-party audits are welcome, and we will help arrange them.
Operations, warehouse, quality-control laboratory, export desk and sample library. 80, Bd Nyamwisi, Commune Mulekera.
Commercial office for North American buyers. Contracting, documentation and buyer relationships.
Golf Trading SARL's legal registered office. Company registration and legal correspondence.
European sample depot. Whole beans and powder held for immediate dispatch to EU buyers.
Tell us your target profile, volume and destination port. Our export desk replies within two business days with available lots, a cut-test report and an indicative offer.