Rafina (French: Raffinage des produits agricoles) is a company based in Bujumbura, Burundi, that manufactures cottonseed oil.
[4] Rafina had the capacity to crush 15,000 tons of seeds per growing season, but has never used more than a small part of this potential.
[5] Rafina was intended to process and refine oilseeds such as soybeans, peanuts, sunflowers and cotton seeds, and to market the oils and by-products.
[2] After 1998, Rafina had to import cotton seed from Tanzania at considerably higher prices than those charged by COGERCO.
[12] At first Rafina sold the oilcake to the state-owned breeding company, linked to a national dairy.