Our work

The Union got registered on 24th April 2009 by registrar of Cooperative societies under registration number 8861/ RCS.
BOCU works with 13 primary cooperatives with 2500 farmers who are organic and fair-trade certified and 1500 farmers are in conversion period. 

Vision:

Farmers with sustainable income and improved livelihoods.

Mission:

Improve Farmers’ incomes through strengthening Cooperative Societies to add value and access better sustainable markets.

Micro Stations Level

46 central micro washing stations have been established and now BOCU has the capability of producing 15 containers in a year given the availability of financial resources. 
Lutheran World relief has provided support of coffee pulpers and Micro station shades and accessories to 23 coffee micro situations and 36 stations have been supported by setting up demo sites, ICT platform for data collection, funding certification costs, supporting the establishment of Micro station lending Associations and supporting the Union in participating in exhibitions like AFCA.

This technology of improving micro stations  with iron sheets improves the coffee quality as the coffee dries under shade and a new Technology of Solar driers is on pilot to see how effective it is and to make sure the coffee doesn’t loose quality.
At the micro station, the micro station group employs a manager to monitor the functionality of the micro station. Here he takes records of cherry, effects payment for the cherry, checks the quality of the cherry, the pulping and drying process of the parchment coffee and BOCU support in monitoring of the stations.