Black & Blaze India Delight

Under British colonial rule, the Adivasi farmers had to pay a handful of rupees to take their home-processed coffee to state collection centres, where the poorest quality raw product found its way onto the world market. The stations disappeared and with them the few rupees. Ten years ago, the Naandi Foundation began to teach individual families the craft of biodynamic coffee cultivation. Success soon followed and won over the world of speciality coffee. Higher revenues, new prospects for the farmers and a speciality for coffee lovers are the positive results. The Adivasi villages are united in a co-operative, the "Small and Marginal Tribal Farmers Mutually Aided Cooperative Society Limited", or "SAMTFMACS" for short. This registered co-operative was founded in 2007 and has since represented the interests of the small coffee farmers spread across the entire region. Its focus is clearly on sustainable coffee cultivation and a fair, regular income for its members. The board provides support in the training and further education of the coffee farmers, manages the central processing station, facilitates quality improvements and enables access to the world market.