Major Sustainability Standards
(1) What are examples of major sustainability standards in coffee, and what are the major features across sustainability standards?
(A) What are examples of major sustainability standards in coffee. #1
History of coffee
There is no accurately when the coffee was discovered, but, the original of using coffee and planting was started before 10th century in Ethiopia. However, when the people understand the coffee or drinking is around 15th century in Yemen and 16th century was reached in Middle East. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coffee)
Organic coffee The farming of organic coffee includes: “(i) no use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, hormones, antibiotics or growth regulators; (ii) the use of compost, farm manure, green manure and crop rotation to maintain and improve soil fertility; (iii) a balanced pest control farm eco-system, with healthy soil management and crop …show more content…
The labelling of Germany coffee also includes some standard recorded identification, (traceability) of individual package batches. Labeling also includes product name, the product’s country of origin, Net weight, flavor, weight, and type of product etc. Also, Germany follows EU law in organic coffee so harmful chemicals are not used. The EU has set strong-minded stages for same chemicals limitation that the world must follow and Germany has one of them. Other chemicals such as pesticides is one of the reasons that border authorities must look at the food to see if it is added over limit. If the product, includes more than allowed insecticides, then that country will be removed from the EU market.
(A) What are examples of major sustainability standards in coffee. #1
History of coffee
There is no accurately when the coffee was discovered, but, the original of using coffee and planting was started before 10th century in Ethiopia. However, when the people understand the coffee or drinking is around 15th century in Yemen and 16th century was reached in Middle East. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coffee)
Organic coffee The farming of organic coffee includes: “(i) no use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, hormones, antibiotics or growth regulators; (ii) the use of compost, farm manure, green manure and crop rotation to maintain and improve soil fertility; (iii) a balanced pest control farm eco-system, with healthy soil management and crop …show more content…
The labelling of Germany coffee also includes some standard recorded identification, (traceability) of individual package batches. Labeling also includes product name, the product’s country of origin, Net weight, flavor, weight, and type of product etc. Also, Germany follows EU law in organic coffee so harmful chemicals are not used. The EU has set strong-minded stages for same chemicals limitation that the world must follow and Germany has one of them. Other chemicals such as pesticides is one of the reasons that border authorities must look at the food to see if it is added over limit. If the product, includes more than allowed insecticides, then that country will be removed from the EU market.