Ensuring a Higher Proportion of Coffee Moves through the Fully Washed Channel

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May 1, 2016 - David Ortega

Ensuring a Higher Proportion of Coffee Moves through the Fully Washed Channel
David Ortega
Feed the Future Africa Great Lakes Region Coffee Support Program Team

Policy Roundtable, Kigali, Rwanda
May 2016

Recap of challenge and findings

  • Relationship between price farmers receive and their productivity/output
  • Farmer investment in productivity is the critical factor
  • Proportion of fully washed coffee decreasing 14-15’
  • Farmers seek fully washed channel to save labor and time
  • Low prices and oversupply are the main barrier for farmers selling in the fully washed channel
  • Farmers elsewhere in East Africa receive higher cherry prices and most have growing production.

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