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Columbia Coffee
Producer Association
FNC

FNC supporting platform
Fair procurement of production place,
Social affair, Financial Advisor, the lastest
coffee industry's information

34 520 Coffee technical
specialist Fair
Cooperatives purchasing procurement
stations
Thousands of coffee farmer households
in Colombia

small small Coffee
farmer farmer plantation

FNC supporting platforms are: 34 cooperatives, 520
purchasing stations, coffee “technical specialist”, Fair procure-
ment place of production, social welfare,
Financial advisor, and the latest information of the industry.
Moreover, thousands of coffee farmer households in Colombia.

FNC & small farmer cooperatives & coffee purchasing
center
At present, there are 34 cooperatives, as well as 520
points of purchase in Colombia which are supported by FNC.
These cooperatives and points of purchase provide an “external The two main conditions to be the member of coopera-
trade and purchasing platform” for thousands of small farmer tives are as follows:
households. The managers of the organizations are elected by 1. To plant at least 1,500 coffee trees
coffee farmers and the cooperatives. The managers are chosen 2. To pay the annual fee (about US $25) based on area of plant-
with the mission of “serving for coffee farmers”. ing. If the individual farmer agrees to sell 100% of their har-
vest to the cooperative, the member fee can be reduced to 50
Colombia cooperatives designed by FNC mainly offer cof- US dollars per year.
fee farmers/members two services:
1. Fair purchasing coffee Thus it can be seen that FNC tries to improve the sys-
As long as the members send their coffee to a coopera- tem of sustainable development. As long as farmers take good
tive, the cooperative will purchase at the current price, fairly. care of their own coffee trees, the federation will help them
Mostly, they will make a contract for purchasing the whole total to sell the coffee at a reasonable price. This can be a win-win
amount. industry relationship that FNC can develop in a longer term.

2. Social welfare and subsidy measures The procedure of purchasing in cooperative is as follows:
Various agricultural subsidies, financial management 1. Farmers bring their parchment beans (the state of beans with
(lending service), social insurance, construction of local pub- silver skin when coffee and cherry are harvested, peeled, and
lic facilities, and so on; i.e. fertilizer purchasing and turnover. degummed)
In every season of planting, farmers can ask for a loan from 2. Transport to a large huller after weighing
cooperatives to buy fertilizer in business cooperatives. During 3. Make it dry to reduce the water in the green bean to 12~13%
the harvesting season is over, they can pay back the loan of the 4. Send samples to laboratory to test the quality and classify
fertilizer with their coffee harvests. 5. Decide a price after cupping
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