Plans to grow coffee market

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Invited guest stand beside coffee seeds listerning to Bula Coffee owner during new headquarters opening at Mataqe, Sigatoka. Picture: ATU RASEA

Bula Coffee founder Luke Fryett wants to continue growing their markets all the while supporting the local communities as well.

During the opening of their headquarters in Mataqe, Sigatoka on Friday last week, he said the more coffee they could sell, the more people they could buy coffee off and the more people they could give a stable income to.

“You can see out there we’ve got a few coffee plants,” Mr Fryett said.

“We’re experimenting with how to grow the coffee, how to look after it.

“We get probably 10 to 15 women a year that come to us and say I want to grow my own coffee.”

Mr Fryett said they did not want to just give them seedlings to go plant.

“We’re experimenting with this one out here.

“We’re trying different ways of growing, we’re trying different sorts of coffee plants.”

He said they were also trying different sorts of fertilizers such as organic fertilizers.

“The women have seen that this coffee is a good income and now they want to take that next step.

“So we need to be one step ahead of them so that we can help them, we can’t help them if we don’t know.”

He said they planned to process coffee at their headquarters but also provide some accommodation, classrooms for training, etc.

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