KCFCS is a strong cooperative of 2,000 smallholder farmers in southwestern Uganda with 20 years of experience in coffee trading. Its vision is to empower farmers to market value-added coffee competitively. Key activities include buying, processing, and exporting coffee beans as well as providing farmers' training, financial services, agro inputs, and community projects. The cooperative has grown its sales and aims to build new facilities to streamline operations as it commits to its community through social, economic and environmental projects. Challenges include governance issues, national policies favoring multinationals, and high start-up costs of establishing cooperatives.

1. Enhancing Development through Coopératives

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Sales are growing!
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2013 2014 2015 est.
Production
Purchase
Sales
70%
in FT
Drought
= low coffee
Available volume in MT

6. 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

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

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

9. Economic
Projects
 Savings & Credit
Unit
 Farm Supply
Shop

10. Environmental
Projects
 Shade trees
 Wetland
restoration

11. 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”

12. THE BEST
FAIRTRADE
SMALL
PRODUCER
ORGANIZATION
2014

13. 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

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

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

16. 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

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