FAIR TRADE COFFEE

FAIR TRADE COFFEE IS VERY USEFUL FOR FARMERS

In the coffee bean industry, farmers pay only an average of $ 0.60 per pound of coffee beans that are still raw. Commodity coffee flooded the market when demand for the commodity coffee beans are not high is caused because there is no regulation in the supply of coffee beans. This causes the world price for commodity coffee down very drastically. In 1988 the Dutch finally made the certification of Fair Trade Coffee

People asked what it was Fair Trade Coffee ? That is a fair trade between the buyer directly with coffee farmers with a predetermined standard price of $ 1.26 per pound for each raw coffee beans that will be purchased.In other words, by eliminating middlemen from the system of buying and selling, sellers and buyers get more profit. 

Coffee farmers get paid more for each pound of coffee beans they sell, while buyers get a cheaper price. In addition there are a lot of Fair Trade Coffee fair trade certified products throughout the world. The advantage of this trade fair to promote healthy working environment and also provide an excellent incentive to farmers or farmers' coffee to other commodities.

Coffee producers who grow a result of this fair trade coffee cooperatives are required to become members of other coffee farmers in an area. Not only the farmers who can enjoy a base price for this coffee, but they also get incentives for every pound of coffee beans when the commodity market price is higher than the tariff fixed standard. With this price, the clappers certified coffee farmers and buyers to maintain continuity of supply of raw coffee beans.