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This name of the cooperative means “talk about coffee”

Yagikawa Cooperative was born in 2008 with main activity of collecting the production (cherries) of the members to be forwarded in the existing coffee washing station of the state to avoid cases of theft during weighing and payment that farmers were compromised with and at the same time to realize some gains of this activity.)

Other motivation behind the creation of the cooperative was to:

• Build their own coffee washing plant at the nearest of producers to reduce the long distance they had to walk
• Directly participate in the chain value of coffee by avoiding all middlemen
• Increase production by facilitating access to agro-inputs and extension services
• Direct access market and increase the revenue of farmers to improve their livelihood.

The cooperative built the washing station since 2013 and it became functional in 2014 etc. During the year 2014, the cooperative met with others and created a Union of the cooperatives of coffee growers known as ‘COCOCA’ to facilitate the promotion of their coffee and develop other complementary services. In 2017, thanks to the good will of cooperators and facilitation of COCOCA, the cooperative was Fairtrade certification under the ID above-mentioned. The cooperative counts more than 900 members but that supply their productions to the cooperative among them 365 are women.

The cooperative has one certificate (Fairtrade), the type of pulper machine used (Mc Kinon: 1.2t/h)

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