GREEN COFFEE ESSENTIAL

​LEARNING ABOUT THE KEY CONCEPTS SURROUNDING GREEN COFFEE

Course Overview

The green processor education pathway design by D’codeS bases on the guideline of SCA. In this course you will learn about the key concepts surrounding green coffee: production, processing, grading, shipping, storage, arrival at destination, as well as coffee contract and portfolio management.

At the whole course, you will have enough time for studying and discussing to make sure you can have knowledge for your pathway to become successful coffee buyer or green bean processor.  

Course Outline

(6 hours per day, 4 days in total.)

Lesson 1

• Coffee botany

  • Coffee anatomy

  • Classification of plant varieties

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• Agronomy

  • Terrior - Aspects of coffee farming

  • Type of coffee farming

  • Risks to coffee farmer

Lesson 2

• Harvesting & Processing

  • Harvesting method

  • Type of farming

  • Coffee cherry to bean anatomy

• Processing method

  • The main processing method

  • Washed process

  • Honey process

  • Natural

  • Green coffee - Drying

Lesson 3

• Storage and transport

  • Dry mill (sorting, polishing, decaffeinate, bagging...)

  • Grading green coffee

  • Keys storage variable affect storage time

  • Optimum condition for transport

Lesson 4

• The global industry

  • Analysis market

  • Common certifications

  • Contracts & trading

• Exam

  • Practical exam

  • Written exam

  • Discussion & conclude

Course Benefits

• Updating the world coffee situation

• Learning the basic principles of coffee growing, processing and green coffee grading and coffee contracts and green coffee portfolio management.

• Having a full immersion day that aims to deepen all the key concepts that surround the green coffee