Cooperative of coffee growers
The 33 coffee grower cooperatives, with their 525 points of purchase, are strategic partners of the FNC. With a base of 77,000+ coffee growers, they organize the market and irrigate well-being in coffee regions by providing the purchase guarantee service.
Market agreement
A partially voluntary and partially governmental system to sell certain produce in order to increase profits of producers.
Natural control
Control done by nature itself to have a healthy soil and an ecological balance in crops.
Mechanical control
Manual destruction of pests and diseases through hunting, traps, meshes, containment barriers, anchors, proper location of crops, convenient soil preparation, and removal of affected plants or parts.
Legal pest control
Government regulations, through authorized institutes, that ensure that the agricultural activity is free from pests and diseases, or that these are not taken to other sites or countries.
Pest control
Biological, cultural, legal, mechanical, natural and chemical are among the control types used to manage coffee pests. The most economically important coffee pest is CBB, which appeared in Colombia in 1988. Its control has been supported through integrated management, which aims to produce FNC-type coffee in the presence of the insect.
Export coffee quality control
Aimed to guarantee different markets the quality standards of coffee exported from Colombia.
Cultural control
Set of crop management practices that counteract the attack of pests and diseases. In the case of CBB, continued collection of ripe, overripe and dry fruits breaks the insect’s life cycle and highly contributes to controlling the pest.
Biological control
The use of an organism to eradicate or control another. This control creates an epidemic that spreads quickly, killing only undesirable organisms.
Coffee contribution (coffee tax)
Contribution made by coffee producers from their own income. It goes directly to the National Coffee Fund to finance public goods and services and maximize coffee growers’ income. (federaciondecafeteros.org/static/files/Infobienes.pdf)