Glossary
The following is a summary of some of the technical expression
used in the website:
Coffee cherries: the fresh fruit
of coffee bushes, must be processed within a few hours of picking
before fermentation begins.
Café parche: is the result
of taking away the pulp from the cherries. This is a stable product
that can be stored, but needs further processing before it can be
roasted and used.
Café marchand: also known
as “green coffee”, is the result of a hulling process
(de-parching) of café parche. This product is packed in jute
bags and sold to roasters for blending and final processing, packing
in 250 gr. Containers, and retail sale to consumers.
Coffee Washing Stations: handle
the fresh coffee cherries and produce café parche through
a mechanical process that includes washing the final product. A
first quality control is exercised at these plants, rejecting fresh
cherries that have not been picked at the right time or delivered
in poor conditions; a second control rejects the parche which reveals
insect puncture or other causes of poor quality.
Coffee hulling plants: “de-parche”
the café-parche, after checking the quality of the input
received, then screen, test, grade and pack the Café marchand
(green coffee) produced. The final quality control before shipment
to buyers is exercised at these plants.
Coffee processing and marketing (cooperative)
companies: enterprises that own and operate washing stations
and hulling plants, purchase fresh cherries from smallholder coffee
planters, and sell green coffee; they will be controlled by primary
cooperative societies of smallholder coffee growers.
Tea green leaves: freshly picked
tea leaves which are sold by producers to tea processing factories.
Black tea (also known as “dry tea”):
the result of processing the green tea leaves. There are two broad
categories of black tea: CTC and “orthodox method” black
tea. CTC black tea is a powder tea used to fill teabags. Orthodox
whole-leaves or broken-leaves tea is of higher value but is no longer
produced in East Africa. Only some producer in India, Sri Lanka,
and China still make black tea by orthodox methods, such tea being
traded in highly specific market niches that supply sophisticated
consumers.
The Nshili Tea Company: the proposed
private company, ultimately to be owned by smallholder cooperatives
of tea planters, that will processes the green tea leaves produced
in the Nshili district of Gikongoro province, after distribution
of the plantation of OCIR-Thé to poor smallholders.
Fair Trade Organizations: Non-profit
to minimum profit organizations specializes in marketing the produce
of smallholder cooperatives in developing countries, promoting specialty
marketing of high value products, and facilitating access to such
market niches with the objective to maximizing returns to primary
producers, and to improve their livelihood.
FLO International: In 1997, no.
6 national federations of FT trading partners established “FLO
International” with headquarters in Bonn, Germany. FLO sets
the standards which must be met by producers to obtain the internationally
recognized FLO certification of the labelled product marketed by
the FT/trading partners.
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