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For Sustainable Development
We provide our services to coffee farmers, coffee association and coffee manufacturers to gain a sustainable development for Ceylon Coffee Industry
Our Services
I. Cultivation
Issues
- The difficulty of affording the cost of plating materials
- Find out quality designated Suppliers for plating materials (provide the Same variety by large scale plant nurseries)
- Not knowing what kind of coffee variety, they have.
- Having mixed up with different varieties.
- Farmers are scattered and not designated neither commercially nor home garden
Solutions
- Provide planting materials for the farmers
- Identify large scale plant nurseries to procure planting materials
- Provide “Arabica’ coffee variety.
- Organize 3 farmers organizations comprise of scattered farmers as a solution to the land fragmentation of Central High land of the country.
II. Harvesting
Issues
- Farmers do not have sufficient equipment.
- Farmers do not have a substantial no of plants
Solutions
- Select farmers who can plant at least 300 plants
III. Collection
Issues
- No designated collectors at the village
- Due to not having designated farmers, difficult for collectors to collect a sufficient amount of produces of coffee
Solutions
- Set up 3 farmer organizations and 10 processing centers to collect raw coffee cherries from farmers.
- With registered farmers, FO is possible to estimate volume to be processed
IV. Primary Processing
Issues
- Farmers are not designated and link to the processors
- Poor processing facilities & equipment
- Fewer processors withholding small productions due to limited supply
- Supply is limited due difficulty of grading coffee mix up with different coffee varieties
- Processors are not export-oriented
Solutions
- Farmers will link with FO through the process of farmer registering
- Provide primary processing equipment to processor (coffee roster)
- The processor will be able to estimate volume through FO
- The processor will have substantial volume (Y 5= 584 Mt)
- Link exporter is the largest value-added coffee (roasted) processor in the country.
V. Secondary Processing
Issues
- Limited supply
- No quality assurance due to not having designated suppliers
- Upstream sequences are not integrated and linked
Solutions
- Exporter supply constraints will be eliminated with proposed volume of FO
- Quality assurance can be possible by providing same variety of coffee plants
- Proposed value chain will integrate all stakeholders of the coffee industry
VI. Sales & Marketing
Issues
- Retailers does not have quality beans supply
- Does not have a products range to cater the differentiated markets and demand
- Consumers do not have source to purchase quality coffee
- Inadequate of having major players in the coffee industry to promote the coffee among the people.
Solutions
- FO will be developed to purchase coffee cherries from farmers.
- Same variety will be distributed among farmers
- Transability reports will be kept at exporters factory
- Develop Kiyota as a main player of the coffee value addition and export of Sri Lanka.
VII. Exports
Issues
- Import restriction of processed coffee beans
- Exporting coffee as raw material (only dried coffee)
Solutions
- Enhance local production of coffee cater into local specialty market
- Export specialty coffee for selected export markets
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