KSU Famasa Flores, Indonesia

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Active members: 235
Active from year: 204
Total production capacity: 80.000 kg of green beans

Product:Arabica Coffee
Certifications: Fairtrade (165 members), Organic (165 members)

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Product: Green bean, dry parchment and roasted coffee
Quality: 84-86 cup score (70% of volume)
Quantity: 49.000 kg of green beans

Koperasi Serba Usaha Famasa (Famasa) established in 2004 is a coffee farmer cooperative in Bajawa, Flores. Progreso has been supporting Famasa with working capital loan since 2020 to pre-finance the purchase of coffee from their members, provide small loans for coffee production to their members and pay for some operating costs within the season.

Implementing organic farming practices and supported by a favorable microclimate, Flores Bajawa Arabica Coffee has a distinctive and unique taste: fruity with a strong floral aroma, moderate acidity and sweet.

Contact Progreso for more information: kiki@progreso.nl

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Makmur Sejahtera Temanggung Central Java, Indonesia

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Active members: 50
Active from year: 2017
Total production capacity: 200.000 kg of green beans

Product: Robusta coffee
Certifications: N/A

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Product: Natural and Pulp Natural Robusta
Quality: 82-85 cup score (50% of volume)
Quantity: 17,000 kg of green beans

CV Makmur Sejahtera Temanggung (MST) has been working together with farmers in Temanggung since 2017. Their Java Robusta coffee has great potential, considering their competitive prices and fast delivery to roasters, cafes, exporters in cities in Java.

CV MST is helping their members to get access to the pre-finance they need to be able to meet their needs before harvest. They have been receiving financial and technical assistance from Progreso since 2022.

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KSU Asnikom  Flores, Indonesia

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Active members: 1.062
Active from year: 2016
Total production capacity: 300.000 kg of green beans

Product: Robusta and Arabica Coffee
Certifications: Fairtrade, Organic, Bird friendly

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Product: Natural and Pulp Natural Robusta, Washed Arabica 
Quality: 85-86 cup score (70% of volume)
Quantity: 60 tons of Robusta green beans and 30 tons of Arabica green beans

Koperasi Serba Usaha Asosiasi Petani Kopi Manggarai Raya (Asnikom) cooperative has been formed by a group of coffee farmers in 2010, with the goal to develop the coffee value chain in Manggarai Raya. Nowadays, the main function of this cooperative is to provide capacity building to farmers, develop networks, and implement fair collective marketing activities in order to improve the welfare of the farmers.

ASNIKOM farmers grow Arabica and Robusta, and do so using agroforestry systems.  ASNIKOM has been receiving financial and technical assistance from Progreso since 2020 to support their Fine Robusta export to the Netherlands.

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Shwe Taung Thu, Myanmar

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Active members: 350
Active from year: 2018
Total production capacity: 50,000 kg of green beans

Product: Coffee
Certifications: Planning for FT certification

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Product: Natural Arabica, centrally processed in 17 villages
Quality: 84 – 86 cup score (50% of volume)
Quantity: 50,000 kg of green beans

Ywangan Shwe Taung Thu (STT) is a farmer owned company located in the town of Ywangan in Southern Shan State, Myanmar. STT was founded in 2018 and has 350 core members from 17 villages around Ywangan.

There are another 3.500 coffee farmers in the region that regularly deliver their cherries to one of the 17 villages, which significantly increases the sales potential for STT as well as their area of intervention and impact. STT aims to find the best (inter)national markets for the coffee produced by their farmers, and even throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and political tension in Myanmar have been able to export high quality coffee every year.

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Agricoop, Ivory Coast

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Active members: 206
Active from year: 2014

Product: Cocoa
Certifications: N/A

Sales information

Product: Cocoa,farmer processed
Quantity: 180,000 kg of dry cocoa beans

Agricoop was created in 2009 by a community of nearly 150 cocoa producing members.

Agricoop became a large cooperative society in2014, but suffered from the electoral crisis in Ivory Coast, losing all their assest. Now, the organization is struggling to survive. Progreso, in collaboration with Fondation Agri-Eco Humanis, started working with Agricoop at the end of 2019 to help recover the organizational structure and business capacity.

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Rutas del Inca, Peru

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Active members: 275
Active from year: 2013
Total production capacity: 213 MT green beans

Product: Coffee
Certifications: FairTrade, Organic

Sales information

Product : Arabica Coffee

Rutas del Inca Agricultural Cooperative, was founded on November 14th, 2013, with 33 members located in the district of Querocoto, in the Cajamarca region, Peru.

In 2014, the cooperative achieved Organic certification and its first export of 60 qq to Sustainable Harvest. In 2015, the cooperative became Fairtrade certified.

A year later, in 2016, Rutas del Inca won the prize for best and youngest company of the year, an award given during Let’s Talk Coffee in Puerto Vallarta-Mexico. Currently, Rutas del Inca has 275 members, organized in 9 bases.

Rutas del Inca has started a project of development with Progreso since 2018, based on an organizational assessement to identify main points of improvement. Rutas del Inca has started with the implementation of a revolving fund to provide microloans to its members for the maintenance of coffee plantations (mainly inputs). In technical assistance, the organization has established an annual operational plan for the trainings in the field, for internal audits of the Organic and Fairtrade certification process and the harvesting plan.

In access to market, the organization with the support of Progreso participated in the SCAE fair – Europe and contacted new clients. The services to their members such as training of the members have increased, however with the establishment of the rotating fund, this will improve further.

Rutas del Inca does not have an up to date longterm plan, and have not set their next development steps within the organization. This activity is part of the project supported by Progreso.

Strategic planning that includes access to market and setting up alliances with other organizations such as the government and other coffee cooperatives, will be of importance for the further development of Rutas del Inca.

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United Organic Coffee Growers, Uganda

Projects

Active members: 270
Active from year: 2000
Total production capacity: 208,073 kg of green beans

Product: Coffee
Certifications: Fairtrade, Organic

Sales information

Product: Washed Arabica, farmer processed
Quality: 83.75 cup score (fruity, pleasant nutty, refined, perfectly balanced)
Quantity: 168,000 kg of green beans

United Organic Coffee Growers (UOCG)began in 2000 as a Youth group consisting of 20 members. In 2007 they got registered as United Organic Coffee Growers Limited by Guarantee.

Progreso has been supportingUOCG since 2015. Currently UOCG is bulking approximately 210 MT parchment from their members, providing about 8 containers of green beans for export.

Contact Progreso for more information: janet@progreso.nl

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SOCANE, Ivory Coast

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Active members:  394
Active from year: 2015
Total production capacity: 1,110,000 kg of dry cocoa beans

Product: Cocoa
Certifications: N/A

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Product: Cocoa, farmer processed
Quality: 70% grade 1, 30% grade 2
Quantity: 1,000,000 kg of dry cocoa beans

SOCANE Cooperative is registered since 2015 and started as a result of the demand of several farmer groups in the region.

Progreso, in collaboration with Fondation Agri-Eco Humanis, started working with SOCANE in 2019 in order to strengthen the organizational capacity for sustainable business development.

 

 

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Rwenzori Farmers Cooperative Union, Uganda

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Active members: 315 active members
Active from year: 2005
Total production capacity: 140,112 kg of green beans

Product:Coffee, cocoa and vanilla
Certifications: Fairtrade

Sales information

Product: Natural Arabica, centrally processed
Quality: 84 cup score (fruity, pleasant winey, mild aftertaste)
Quantity: 58,000 kg of green beans

Rwenzori Farmers’ Co-operative Union– RFCU consists of members who are engaged in the production of vanilla, coffee and cocoa. RFCU started as an association of farmers in 2005 and registered as a Union in 2014.

Progreso has been supporting RFCU since 2015 focussing on the coffee value chain. Currently RFCU is involved in centrally processed natural sundried arabica.

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