KAGERA

Kagera Cooperative Union (KCU 1990 Ltd) is a farmer-owned cooperative organization based in Bukoba, Tanzania. Established in 1950, it brings together primary agricultural cooperative societies representing smallholder coffee farmers, most of whom grow Robusta coffee. KCU has 143 AMCOS (Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Society) with around 45000 farmers. Of these, 32 are certified organic, bringing together around 12000 members.

 Organic coffee is an important part of KCU’s activities  KCU works with 32 organically certified primary cooperative societies representing more than 12,000 registered and certified organic smallholder farmers. Following recent changes in EU organic certification regulations, KCU reorganised its 32 primary cooperative societies into five subgroups to support the management and compliance of its organic certification system. . KCU reports producing more than 2,500 tonnes of organic coffee per season.  Each organic primary cooperative will hull, grade, and clean the coffee on site. Everything above screen 14 will then be combined as FAQ grade  What was also cool is that KCU has its own Saccos - a member-owned financial organ that provide savings and lends money to its members. So any farmer can come there to borrow money outside of the coffee season, without paying any interest!

CULTIVARS

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Farmers cultivate coffee on an average of approximately 0.3 hectares, using traditional mixed farming systems in which coffee grows alongside bananas, beans and other crops

PROCESSING

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Wanza – KiliMeru community lot - washed

The price you pay for KiliMeru washed p/kg. We agreed on this price directly with the farmers, disregarding the volatile US Coffee C price.
Wanza is responsible for a number of activities between the coffee at origin to Rotterdam. This fee per kg includes their salaries, farmer training and development fee, Business expenses that include travelling to visit the farmers, local taxes, Warehousing, Sampling as well shipping to the nearest port for export
International shipping from Dar es Salaam to Rotterdam, Netherlands. It is inclusive of freight, customs, insurance and warehousing costs.
Average financing cost owed to (mostly social) lenders. This ensures immediate payment to the farmers when the coffee leaves the farm or port.It also includes storage, risk fee, storage and profit
A standard TSU premium on all coffees designated exclusively to accelerate farmers’ own regenerative agriculture project
This Side Up compensation for spending time and resources importing this coffee. Our work includes year-round contact with producers, managing export, shipping, import, warehousing, grading, sampling, finding and keeping roasting partners for Wanza. € 1,22 is This Side Up’s Model 1 markup. For a full overview of our modular margin construction, see the Trade Models page.
It is worth noting that coffees have a different price since we are trying out different grades for the first time this season. And even though the farmers were paid the same farm gate for the all grades, in reality the differences can be taken from the TSU margin.

CONTACT WANZA

Wanza can be reached by email or by phone. Frank is happy to have visitors to show around their coffee farms and host in their village, close to the city of Arusha and to numerous national parks

TEL : +255 713 838 181

EMAIL mlayff@gmail.com/ wanzacoffee@gmail.com