The 2nd coffee community meetup was held at Ete coffee headquarter, Billy Graham Road Kohima on Dec 28 with its vision to establish a sustainable and symbiotic coffee ecosystem beneficial to all stakeholders, earth, people and coffee.
Ete coffee founder and CEO Lichan Humtsoe launched the CEP and CLS and mentioned that its mission was casting inclusive vision based on sustainability, to establish quality control standards in all process chain from farm to cup, exploring the prospects of coffee industries together, to promote specialty coffee, create platforms for learning and sharing, connect knowledge repositories and consortium of coffee expert to enhance learning and growth and encouraging research and development.
SCA certified barista, brewer and roaster, Indian coffee culture founder Paul shared on specialty coffee experience where he stated that it was encouraging and enlightening to see that coffee is growing in Nagaland with the potential to expand throughout the world.
Authorised SCA trainer (AST) director, Benki Brewing Tools SCI processing professional Suhas Dwaraka spoke on coffee scene, local and global.
He mentioned that coffee in Nagaland was very good and can compete with outside world and this can happen only if the community came together.
He advised all who were in coffee business to put coffee first and then focus on the brand later, to work with planters, understand them and pay them fair price.
He said coffee business was going up and there was so much potential to expand it.
Founder and owner of Sorshia and Co, Apem also spoke on the coffee culture in Nagaland.
A panel discussion was held followed by Ete coffee advisory board member, Khrietuo Pienyü with vote of thanks.
The two programmes that Ete coffee launched was coffee education programme (CEP), SING that is to sensitize, identify, network and guide. Coffee lab services (CLS) which comes under Ete coffee school of coffee education and center for research & innovations with its objectives: Need for quality control facilities center at the earliest possible, equip coffee growers with high standard procedures, assessment and examination hub for plantation sites; soil testing, elevation, pest control (entomology), understanding watershed, etc, to raise a generation of competent coffee practitioners (growers, roasters, baristas, brewers and traders) in order to take up future opportunity in the coffee industry as it blooms, enhance employability of youth through coffee industry by educating with sound technical knowhow, promote local enterprise through consultancy services, training programmes, branding of local produce, platform for advocacy, sensitization and safety net for growers, curators, traders and other coffee related issues and concerns, free access to lab services with nominal fees.
The programme was attended by growers, processors, stockiest, exporters, roasters, coffee shop owners, researchers, leaders/ influences, institutions/organisation and policy makers.