"The most beautiful coffee plantations in Ituri". Coffee, settlers and plantations in the Belgian Congo: history of the company "Plantations du Congo oriental" (1910-1943) ; « Les caféières les plus belles de l’Ituri ». Café, colons et planteurs : histoire de la société « Plantations du Congo Oriental » (1910-1943)

The history of the company "Plantations du Congo oriental", founded in 1926 by Fernand Delmotte in Ituri, in the eastern province of Belgian Congo, is part of the history of this colony but also in the history of a product tropical and a world market: coffee. Fernand Delmotte was first a civil servant in the railways and then at the Kilo and Moto Gold Mines until 1926, when he founded La Planco with shareholders, family members and friends in Tournai. in Belgium, administrative headquarters of the company. The property containing 450 hectares of coffee plantations had an area of 1,185 hectares... Mehr ...