BRASITECH in conjunction with Bagtech International has developed numerous equipment utilised in the coffee industry. BRASITECH has installed and commissioned more than 37 coffee processing equipment and coffee Mills.
EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURED AND COMMISSIONED
|
Mechanical
washers |
Hullers |
Why BRASITECH has focused on this market.
Coffee is an important commodity and a popular beverage. Over 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed in the world every day. Over 90% of coffee production takes place in developing countries, while consumption happens mainly in the industrialized economies. Worldwide, 25 million small producers rely on coffee for a living. For instance, in Brazil alone, where almost a third of all the world's coffee is produced, over 5 million people are employed in the cultivation and harvesting of over 3 billion coffee plants; it is a much more labour-intensive culture than alternative cultures of the same regions.
Coffee is also bought and sold as a commodity on the New York Board of Trade. This is where coffee futures contracts are traded, which are a financial asset involving a standardized contract for the future sale or purchase of a unit of coffee at an agreed price. The world's largest transfer point for coffee is the port of Hamburg, Germany.
A
number of classifications are used to label coffee produced under
certain environmental or labour standards. For
instance, bird-friendly or shade -grown coffee is said to be
produced in regions where natural shade (canopy trees) is used to
shelter coffee plants during parts of the growing season. Organic
coffee is produced under strict certification guidelines, and is
grown without the use of potentially harmful artificial pesticides
or fertilizers; conventional coffee is grown with more pesticides
than any other agricultural crop—cotton comes second. Fair Trade
coffee is produced by small coffee producers who belong to
cooperatives; guaranteeing for these cooperatives a minimum price,
though with historically low prices, current fair-trade minimums are
lower than the market price of only a few years ago. TransFair
USA is the primary organization currently overseeing Fair Trade
coffee practices in the United States, while the Fairtrade
Foundation does so in the United Kingdom