Sunday, January 31, 2010

Just Ask - Is Civet Coffee export to Turkish ?

 Hi Aslan , for your information we are not the distributor or any dealer for the Civet coffee. However, if you required the information to export we can facilitator the local connection. They have their own export rule and regulation and also the unseen rule. Here is a hint the business coffee dealer all talk to each other. 
Many times dealers are good friends and have done business for decades. they often network together. You might be very shocked at how much networking goes on in the Philippine business communities. Beside being friends, business dealers are often related to each other, brothers, sisters, uncles, marriage and so on. It is a small tight community. .To date, communities are sustained by Bote Central-Cafe Alamid's mother company who exports them to Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Australia, United States and Italy. They produce one to 1.5 tons a year, they could go higher but they are very particular about the quality of the coffee and the protection of the environment.  Civet coffee is found all over the Philippines wherever forests are lush, where civets thrive and coffee beans grow. The supply are very regulated therefore the main distributor will be the one that gain much of the benefit, as for business something that is not scalability and very hard to duplicate, at the grace and mercy of nature carry a potential calculated risk factor. When I was back in China the Yunnan Coffee Industrial Corporation (YCIC) only had ten plantations in 1996,  now the sole purchaser of the output of over 100 plantations throughout Yunnan province-40 in the Simao region-China's premier growing region. YCIC is working with every one of these to make improvements to bean quality-installing quality control measures and supporting the growers with both finance and new technology. Yunnan University's Agricultural Department has also been working with growers to try to rid the country's crops of the coffee virus, Dry Leaf, having significant success by cross-breeding local plants with disease-free imported varieties.
Yunnan's temperate climate, height above sea level and general geographical situation make the growing conditions comparable with both Indonesia and Colombia. Indeed, there seems to be no reason whatsoever for Yunnan not to produce some very fine, high quality coffee, especially now that the government is throwing its weight behind the venture.What I heard that plans are already on the drawing board to build two new roasting plants in the province-one in Kunming and another in Simao. A sign of China's optimism in the future of its coffee industry is the YCIC's model factory above Kunming. With a capacity of 1,000 metric tons per shift. If they decided to make it big sometimes the buyer for coffee can be an exporter next .
If you want you can order online at http://www.arengga.com for the civet coffee.

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