Basically Beautiful Coffee Nepal (BeaCoN) supports ICS (Inter Control System), the process for producing organic coffee in Gulmi through the CCU (Coffee Cooperative Union). It consists of group training, inspections and monitoring. BeaCoN encourages them through publishing “ICS Operating Manual for Organic Certification of Coffee Produced by Smallholder Farmers in Nepal” (for managing) and “Organic Farmer’s Diary”(for producing). Every year the members of ICS are inspected by CU (Control Union) and the farmers who pass this get the organic certification EFAPA (Environmental Friendly Agriculture Promotion Act). With this EFAPA, CCU can expert organic coffee to South Korea through Beautiful Coffee Korea, the Fair Trade organization. BeaCoN helps CCU-Gulmi make this whole process successful for benefit of the members of the cooperatives through increased production and marketing of organic Fair Trade coffee producing.
