Rasso, Ivory Coast

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Active members: 420
Active from year: 2015
Total production capacity: 499,000 kg of dry cocoa beans

Product: Cocoa
Certifications: UTZ

Sales information

Product: Cocoa, farmer processed
Quality: 100% grade 2
Quantity: 710,000 kg of dry cocoa beans

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The RASSO Cooperative has been created in 2015 by a group of young male and female farmers. As of today, RASSO is directed by a woman, and has 50% of women in management bodies. This makes it one of the few cooperatives in Côte d’Ivoire to have a high rate of women participants, both as directors and members.

Furthermore, RASSO has 25% of women members and coca plantation owners. This is comparison to the national average of 5-10%.

Thanks to their income coming from cocoa, these women not only have an direct impact on their households, but also on the education of their children.

Contact Progreso for more information: nathaniel@progreso.nl

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Cooperative Rios de Agua Viva, Nicaragua

Active members: 184Active from year: 1997Total production capacity: 245,000 kg of green

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Mt. Elgon Coffee and Honey Cooperative Society (MECAHC), Uganda

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Active members: 698
Active from year: 2017
Total production capacity: 133,000 kg green beans

Product: Coffee
Certifications: Organic, Fairtrade in process

Sales information

Product : Arabica Coffee
Quality: 80-86 cupping score
Quantity: 69,000 kg green beans

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MECAHC is located on the slopes of the Mt. Elgon in Eastern Uganda. It is here, at at up to 2,000 meters above sea level, where one of the finest washed Arabica coffee of the country is produced. The cooperative started as a beekeeping and coffee integration project. After the successful completion of the project, the farmers decided to form MECAHC and, together, market coffee and honey.

MECAHC is receiving support from Progreso since 2021, in order to strengthen its capacity, improve coffee quality, get Fairtrade certified and start exporting their coffees.

Contact Progreso for more information: janet@progreso.nl

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Cooperative Rios de Agua Viva, Nicaragua

Active members: 184Active from year: 1997Total production capacity: 245,000 kg of green

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Kanyenze People’s SACCO, Uganda

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Active members: 1.364
Active from year: 2007
Total production capacity: 491,039 kg of green beans

Product: Coffee
Certifications: N/A

Sales information

Product: Washed Arabica, centrally processed
Quantity: 85,000 kg of green beans

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Kanyenze People’s SACCO started as a Community-Based Organization in 2000 and registered as a savings and credit society in 2007. In 2012 Kanyenze started bulking and marketing their natural arabica coffee to local coffee companies and traders. Progreso started working with Kanyenze in 2015, and currently has an operational washing station where they process cherries from their members to a well-appreciated washed arabica.

Contact Progreso for more information: janet@progreso.nl

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Cooperative Rios de Agua Viva, Nicaragua

Active members: 184Active from year: 1997Total production capacity: 245,000 kg of green

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Kagaari North, Kenya

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Active members: 3.405
Active from year: 1978
Total production capacity: 435,000 kg fresh cherries

Product: Coffee
Certifications: Fairtrade, Café practices

Sales information

Product: Arabica, centrally washed
Variety/Quality: Over 70% is AA/AB
Quantity: 83,000 kg green beans

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Progreso has been supporting Kagaari North since 2012. Through this, Kagaari has been able to obtain the Fairtrade Certificate, and quadruple the amount of coffee traded through the factories from 112 MT of fresh cherries in 2010/11, to approximately 432 MT in 2017/18.

Contact Progreso for more information: admin@progreso.nl

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Kabeywa, Uganda

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Active members: 388
Active from year: 2010
Total production capacity: 96,761 kg of green beans

Product: Coffee
Certifications: Fairtrade

Sales information

Product: Washed Arabica, farmer and centrally processed
Variety/Quality: 84.25 cup score (fruity, lemon, butter, rich)
Quantity: 70,000 kg of green beans

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Kabeywa was started by a small group of 15 farmers in 2005. It is also since this year that Progreso has been working with them to help them become a become a professional business. In the past years Kabeywa has improved their management capacity and expanded their washing station. Currently, they have both centrally washed arabica and farmer processed arabica.

Contact Progreso for more information: daan@progreso.nl

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Juru, Rwanda

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Active members: 253
Active from year: 2009
Total production capacity: 40,000 kg of green beans

Product: Coffee
Certifications: N/A

Sales information

Product: Washed Arabica, centrally processed
Variety/Quality: 85 cup score (fruity, complex)
Quantity: 24,000 kg of green beans

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Juru started in 2009 as a cooperative and registered as a company in 2013. Progreso started working with Juru in 2019. With 253 members the vision of Juru is to ‘Becoming the leading producer of high quality, single origin coffee for domestic and international markets in Rwanda’.

Contact Progreso for more information: daan@progreso.nl

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Active members: 184Active from year: 1997Total production capacity: 245,000 kg of green

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Dukunde Kawa, Rwanda

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Active members: 1.192
Active from year: 2000
Total production capacity: 254,000 kg of green beans

Product: Coffee, milk, yoghurt
Certifications: Fairtrade, Organic, UTZ, Rainforest Alliance,Café Practices 

Sales information

Product: Washed Arabica, centrally processed
Quality: Average 86.5 cup score
Quantity: 143,000 kg of green beans

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Dukunde Kawa Cooperative started in 2000 as a small association of 300 coffee growers.Progreso started working with Dukunde Kawa in 2015, and currently Dukunde has a fully operational washing station including a color sorter to process the coffee of the around 1,000 farmer members.

Contact Progreso for more information: daan@progreso.nl

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Busongora J County Joint Farmers Cooperative, Uganda

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Active members: 516
Active from year: 2003
Total production capacity: 232,500 kg of green beans

Product: Coffee
Certifications: N/A

Sales information

Product: Washed and natural Arabica, centrally processed
Variety/Quality: Specialty Coffee
Quantity: 63,000 kg of green beans

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The Busongora coopertive is located in the Rwenzori mountains, in western Uganda. The Rwenzori mountains are characterised by there fertile soils, ideal for the growth of coffee. The cooperative was established in2003 and fully registered as a cooperative in 2021. That same year Busongora started working with Progreso to sell specialty coffee to buyers abroad.

 

 

 

 

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Bundibugyo Improved Cocoa Farmers Cooperative Society Ltd, Uganda

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Active members: 4.808
Active from year: 2012
Total production capacity: 3.00.000 kg of dry cocoa beans

Product: Cocoa
Certifications: : Fairtrade, organic in process

Sales information

Product: Cocoa, farmer and centrally processed
Variety/Quality: FAQ, export grade, specialty fine flavor
Quantity: 3.000.000 kg of dry cocoa beans

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Bundibugyo Improved Cocoa Farmers Cooperative Society Ltd (BIC) started as an association in 2012.

Since 2014 they have been supported by the Rabo Foundation for loan facility. Since 2019 Progreso is also working with BIC to strengthen the business capacity and improve the quality.

 

 

 

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Mt. Rwenzori Coffee  Farmers, Uganda

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Active members: 1,254 active members
Active from year: 2014
Total production capacity: 330,000 kg of green beans

Product: Coffee
Certifications: Fairtrade

Sales information

Product: Natural Arabica, centrally processed
Variety/Quality: Naturals, farm washed and centrally washed Arabica
Quantity: 126,000 kg of green beans

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The Mt Rwenzori Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Union is located in the Kasese district, in the Rwenzori region of western Uganda. MRCFCU was founded in 2014 and formally registered in 2018. It currently consists of 25 primary societies and local groups, with 1,254 active members who are dedicated to the production of coffee.

With support from Progreso MRCFCU is strengthening its capacity, has become Fairtrade certified, has built micro washing stations and is preparing to direct export high-quality coffee.

 

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