What is a coffee cooperative?

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As its name suggests, coffee cooperatives are cooperative groups of coffee farmers who work together to gain access to better resources, such as better marketing resources, business opportunities, and personnel training resources.

All members of a cooperative pay a membership fee, which is then invested in the local community. The money collected is more effective than spending it alone. In addition, many large cooperatives have full-time employees who work in management, marketing, personnel education, and research.

Cooperatives are non-profit organizations where everyone participates voluntarily, and our job is to make it easier for members to access resources when producing or serving coffee.

The supply chain is not just fertilizer and pesticide spraying, but cash flow, information integration, technology application, etc. We must provide farmers with resources, knowledge, and allow farmers to sell coffee.

The purpose of the cooperative is to market the products and services of its members on more favourable terms than we can sell them ourselves, and they also provide services for us. For example, the cooperative has a team consisting of a technical department, an agricultural department, and an agricultural preservation team. A bank offered us better credit rates to raise money to grow coffee. Coffee farmers receive comprehensive support here.

In fact, cooperatives may operate in a wide range of activities, including, but not limited to, the following:

Supply farmers pesticides and fertilizers

Technical support to farmers

Offer lower bank credit rates

Buying and selling farmers 'products

Connect farmers directly with buyers

Assistance in obtaining certification

Educational training support

Business advice and training