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this coffee was sourced by This Side Up
COSTING AND TRANSPARENCY
How the chart works
The main purpose of this chart is to roughly illustrate the different costs involved in our coffee purchasing operations, with a focus on transparency—specifically what the producer receives and what we retain from the operation.
glossary
Farmgate: Is the price the farmer gets paid per KG or LBS of green beans.
FOB (Free on board): It represents the cost of coffee at the port of origin, ready to be shipped. It includes the cost of the green coffee beans, processing, packaging, domestic transportation to the port, and exporter's fees, but not the cost of shipping and insurance to the destination country.
We convert all the data to euro and kg for better understanding.
Passion driven
Intango (pronounced “Inango”) is a small washing station on the edge of Lake Kivu. Once part of a cooperative that won the 2014 Rwanda Cup of Excellence. It became run down as the cooperative dissolved. That is until Gilbert Gatali took it over. Grown up in Canada but Rwandan by roots, Gilbert came back to his African roots as a coffee importer.
He then continued to help hundreds of farmers improve their quality as manager of Rwanda's first farmer-owned specialty coffee export company. Finally, after 13 years of managing coffee quality indirectly, he and his best friend Gervais are fulfilling their dreams of running their own specialty coffee washing station and making a direct impact on the surrounding farmers.
French Mission, Jackson, Mbirizi
processing
All coffee is hand picked, disc pulped, wet fermented overnight, washed and soaked with mountain water, then sun dried on raised beds.
[ Intango / Rwanda / various producers]
