Las Segovia Certified Organic Coffee Producers Cooperative
COUNTRY: Nicaragua
PRODUCT: Organic Coffee
CONTACT:
management@prococer.com
presidencia@prococer.com
Phone: (505) 88317204
FLO ID 34102
Fairtrade Certificate since 2015
Number of members 292
COFFEE PROCESSING
PROCOCER coffee grows in an altitude range between 600 and 1300 meters above sea level and is harvested from November to March.
The coffee goes through the processing of wet beneficiary in the farms, oreado and chosen to be transferred to the collection center.
Subsequently it is transferred to the dry benefit for the drying process in resting yards and threshing for export.
INTRODUCTION
Las Segovias Certified Organic Coffee Producers Multisectoral Cooperative (PROCOCER), is located in Nicaragua, in the Nueva Segovia region.
The objective is the commercialization of organic coffee. Born with 160 producers, in 1999 and begins its first export with two coffee containers to the States
United.
It is an organization of small producers, who work with family labor.
It is recognized as a solid, profitable cooperative that improves the quality of life of the families of its members and partners, in harmony with the environment and with equitable gender relations.
FAIR TRADE BENEFITS
PROCOCER considers fair trade to be of great importance, since it offers strengthening to the organization, price security, promotes social works in the communities, and supports the environmental protection system.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
The organization has invested in improving the roads of road communication.
QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY
Similarly, it has invested in the productivity fund in which the organic fertilizer is produced in the cooperative's silver.
SOCIAL
Producers receive a part of the Fairtrade Premium with the aim of improving the family economy.
ENVIRONMENT
The organization has been strongly affected by climate change since