Enhancing Development through Coopératives

KCFCS - A STRONG & RELIABLE CO-OPERATIVE FROM
SOUTH WESTERN UGANDA.
 Located in Kyabiiri-Kibinge
 Members 2000 smallholder farmers
 Close to 20 years business experience
for both local and international coffee trading
 VISION: Coffee farmers’ empowered to own and
market value-added coffee at competitive prices
 MISSION: To establish a sustainable and
profitable coffee farmers’ operated co-operative
society

KCFCS - OUR KEY ACTIVITIES
1. Buying, processing, and exporting coffee beans
2. Farmers’ trainings in good agriculture practices
GAPS
3. Financial services
4. Agro input supply
5. Community projects

Discover our quality natural robusta
Greenish –Brownish
Screen size :
 18 => the best quality bean size
 15 => mainstream quality coffee
 12 + GNAs => generally accepted grades for instant coffee
A strong but less bitter taste than average robusta (caffeine
level :1.25%)
Heavy body, strong flavor coffee
Fairtrade certified coffee
HARVEST :
May – Sep
Nov - Jan

Sales are growing!
785
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0
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400
600
800
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1200
1400
2013 2014 2015 est.
Production
Purchase
Sales
70%
in FT
Drought
= low coffee
Available volume in MT

We own the value chain
Coffee tree
Selectively
handpicked
red cherries
Sundrying
Hulling
factory
Grading Shipping
Key advantages :
• Traceability from farmers to the
importer
• High Quality control

We are strongly committed to our
community
 Social Projects
 Economic Projects
 Environmental Projects
 School outreach programs

Social
Projects
 Latrines for local
school
 Power to health
center
 Grading local
roads

Economic
Projects
 Savings & Credit
Unit
 Farm Supply
Shop

Environmental
Projects
 Shade trees
 Wetland
restoration

Farmer Profile: Kigundu Gerald
 Member since 2006 and
current promoter farmer
 10 acres and roughly 3,000
trees
 Coffee profits paid school
fees for 6 kids
 “Fair coffee prices from
KCFCS have stabilized
farmers’ lives”

THE BEST
FAIRTRADE
SMALL
PRODUCER
ORGANIZATION
2014

Building for the future
 KCFCS recently acquired a plot of land that will soon
host all departments of the co-operative
Admin
Farm
Supply
Shop
Savings &
Credit
Processing
Facilities
CUT COSTS & STREAMLINE OPERATIONS

Big things are coming!
 New factory and office
 Plans for café and R&G
product
 New international sales
partners
 Expanded community
outreach initiatives

Data Management
 We maintain a farmer
data management
system of our producers
for proper management
of coffee inflows and
growth matching
.

Challenges of co-operatives
 Governance problems
between management
and board or within
board
 National Policy: Neither
conducive nor aggressive
(Benign neglect), Taxes?
 Trade policies: promotes
side selling to
multinationals
 Costs for initial
establishment of co-
operatives :
sensitization, set up
costs, training of
management and
members, support
supervision/
administration costs,
monitoring and audit

DAVID LUKWATA
General Manager
+ 256 752 837 382
Kibingecoffe@gmail.com
www.kibingecoffee.com