Bukonzo Joint, Uganda

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Active members: 1.707
Active from year: 1999
Total production capacity: 5,640,566 kg of green beans

Product: Coffee
Certifications: Fairtrade, Organic

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Product  Washed Arabica, centrally processed
Quantity: 422,400 kg of green beans

Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Union Limited was registered in 1999 and currently has over 1700 members and 15 farmer owned washing stations. Bukonzo Joint is one of the largest Unions in Uganda with established market relations worldwide.

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Bufombo Organic Farmers Association, Uganda

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Active members: 942
Active from year: 1997
Total production capacity: 425,250 kg parchment

Product: Coffee
Certifications: Fairtrade, Organic, UTZ

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Product: Arabica, farmer washed
Quality: 80 cupping score

Progreso has been supporting BOFA since 2014 through capacity building on financial and business management, Certification Standards and Compliance of the board, staff and farmer members.

To improve the coffee production, trainers were trained and farm tools were distributed. With support from Progreso, BOFA has been able to sell about 80% of its’ coffee for a premium price, and they obtained working capital from the Rabobank Foundation. Furthermore,BOFA established a banana mother garden and distributed quality maize and bean seeds in order to improve food security of its’ members.

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Zombo Coffee Partners, Uganda

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Active members: 1500
Active from year: 2018
Total production capacity: 60,000 kg of green beans

Product: Coffee
Certifications: In conversion to Organic

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Product: Washed and natural Arabica microlots
Quality: 84 – 86 cup score (60% of volume)
Quantity: 45,000 kg of green beans

Zombo Coffee Partners (ZCP)is a small private company working in close partnership with farmer groups in northwestern Uganda. With technical and financial support from ZCP and others, each group has built a micro-station for coffee processing, which it owns and operates. ZCP trains and pre-finances the farmer groups, markets their coffee, and shares profits with them. As of September 2020, 700 farmers are in conversion to organic production.

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ABOCFA Cocoa Farmers, Ghana

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Active members: 696
Active from year: 2007
Total production capacity: 1,005,003 kg dry beans

Product: Cocoa
Certifications: Fairtrade, Organic

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Product: Cocoa
Quantity: 850,000 kg dry beans

Progreso has been supporting ABOCFA since 2012, with a focus on capacity building on organizational development and cocoa marketing. ABOCFA has grown in size and strength over the past years, and is currently producing about 1,000 Metric Tons of Organic and Fairtrade Cocoa.

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Cencoic, Colombia

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Active members: 3152
Active from year: 1980
Total production capacity: 800,000 kg of green beans

Product: Coffee
Certifications: Fairtrade, Organic, Café Practices

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Product : Arabica Coffee
Variety/Quality:
Castilla, Colombia, Caturra, Typica,  Bourbon
Quantity: 800,000 kg of green beans

Cencoic is an indigenous cooperative located in the Cauca Valley in southern Colombia and is, with 3,122 members, the largest cooperative in Colombia that we work with. 

Over the last five years, with support from Progreso, the cooperative has increased the implementation of good agricultural practices at their members´ farms, implemented bio-factories to improve the fertilization of crops and centers to strengthen the post-harvest  infrastructure. These measures have led to an increase of the yields from 700 kg/ha to 1,250 kg/ha (green coffee) and improved the coffee quality from 84 to 86 points.

The organization is included in the “Plan Maestro”, meaning that they are using our digital tools to improve their technical data in the field and commercialization through Beyco.

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Chocolates, Colombia

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Active members: 911
Active from year: 2014
Total production capacity: 795,000 kg 

 

Product: Cocoa, Cocoa liquor, cocoa bars, cocoa nibs
Certifications: Fairtrade, Organic, Bird friendly

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Product: Cocoa, Cocoa liquor, cocoa bars, cocoa nibs
Variety: Colombia cocoa
Quantity: 795000 kg conventional cocoa

Chocolate Colombia started in 2014 with a collection center in Caucasia (Antioquia, eastern Colombia) as an initiative for cocoa farmers to have a greater commercialization of their cocoa. Nowadays they are a second level organization with 10 base organizations, selling cocoa beans with FairTrade certification, special cocoa with sustainable cocoa guidelines as well as conventional cocoa in the national and international market.

Furthermore they have a transforming factory located in Llanos de Cuivá, Angostura (Antioquia) which produces products derived from chocolate and provides chocolate processing services for the national market.

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Occicafé, Colombia

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Active members: 795
Active from year:  2005
Total production capacity: 2,500,000 kg of green beans

 

Product: Coffee
Certifications: Fairtrade conventional , Rain Forest, UTZ, CP.

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Product : Arabica Coffee
Variety/Quality: Castilla, Colombia, Caturra, Tabi,  Bourbon, Geisha
Quantity: 2,500,000 kg of green beans

 

Occicafe is an association of High Quality Coffee Producers from the Southwest of Huila and Eastern Caucano, with the goal to improve the living conditions of their associates and families based on a framework of solidarity, self-effort, joint responsibility, social equality and common benefit.

Progreso included Occicafes in “Plan maestro” for the use of digital tools and finding more clients through Beyco, it is a good ally for tackling the climate change in the region.

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Nuevo Futuro, Colombia

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Active members: 197
Active from year: 1996
Total production capacity: 409,595 kg of green beans

Product: Coffee
Certifications: Rainforest Alliance, Fairtrade, Organic, SPP

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Product : Arabica Coffee
Variety/Quality: Castilla, Caturra, Suppremo
Quantity: 257,600 kg of green beans

Nuevo Futuro is a cooperation of 197 small coffee producers who are located over five municipalities in the Valle del Cauca . Nuevo Futuro started working with Progreso at the end of 2015; today is included in the “Plan Maestro” using our digital tools, . With  the support of Progreso, the cooperation  conducted soil analyses and has built bio-factories as part of the organic fertilization program. The results of  these activities are reflected in the increase in plots’ yield from 1,079 kg/ha to 1,487 kg/ha (green coffee) and quality between 83 – 84 points.

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La red Ecolsierra, Colombia

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Active members: Cocoa: 50
Active from year: 2007
Total production capacity: 30,000 kg of dry cocoa bean

Product:dry cocoa bean
Certifications: Organic, Fair Trade

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Product: Dry Cacao bean
Variety/Quality: Criollo, Colombia
Quantity: 30,000 kg of dry cocoa

The members of the Red Ecolsierra are small and medium producers, organized into 24 base groups. Most of them are people from the interior of the country (or descendants of these) who came to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta as harvesters and were colonizing the lands of the coastal massif, living from coffee and cocoa cultivation.

Progreso supports the cocoa rehabilitation program, Encourages the production of organic fertilizers and supports with two technicians, tools and supplies for a cocoa laboratory, among other related activities.


The results were reflected in the purchase and delivery of fertilizers and controllers to the producers, for example, 160 cans of 20 liters each and 770 packages of 50 kg of solid compost, delivery of seeds and cocoa clones and assistance the cocoa laboratory construction la Mojana territory.

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Global Cafés, Colombia

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Active members: 256
Active from year:  2012
Total production capacity: 600,000 kg of green beans

Product: Coffee
Certifications: Fairtrade, Organic, UTZ, SPP

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Product : Arabica Coffee
Variety/Quality: Castilla, Colombia, Caturra, Typica,  Bourbon
Quantity: 600,000 kg of green beans

 

Global Cafes is located in La Plata – Huila is a cooperative of small producers outstanding in differentiated cup coffees with the sweet flavour of red cherry fruits addressed in exclusive market niches where is seeking a good quality of cup and life of the producer.

Progreso has been supported from 2019, helping them to find more clients for their products and technical assistance to increase their production

Global Cafes is included in the “Plan Maestro”, being part of climate resilient using our digital tool and taking action in traceability in Huila.

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