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‘’From our position on the Earth it is difficult to observe where the Earth is and where it’s going, or what its future course might be. Hopefully, by getting a little farther away, both in the real sense and the figurative sense, we’ll be able to make some people step back and reconsider their mission in the universe, to think of themselves as a group of people who constitute the crew of a spaceship going through the universe. If you’re going to be pretty cautious about how you use your resources, how you use your crew, and how you treat your spacecraft.
Hopefully the trips we will be making in the next couple of decades will open up our eyes a little. When you are looking at the Earth from the lunar distance, its atmosphere is just unobservable. The atmosphere is so thin, and such a minute part of the Earth, that it can’t be sensed at all.
That should impress everyone. The atmosphere of the Earth is a small and valuable resource. We’re going to have to learn how to conserve it and use it wisely.
Down here in the crowd you are aware of the atmosphere and it seems adequate, so you don’t worry about it too much. But from a different vantage point, perhaps it is possible to understand more easily why we should be worrying’’.
Extract of Publication about the meaning of moon landing by Neil Armstrong , about a month before launch of Apollo 11, at the request of Life Magazine , June 1969
Enhance productivity in coffee agro-business through inclusive know-how in order to sustain-[smallholders farmers]-ability to create their own prosperity in the coffee agriculture value chain
Agro-technics
- Soil analysis: Laboratory test & report
- Disease & pests assessment + prevention plan
- Agriculture-In-Situ: teaching-training-forming; educating for best practice achievement
- Ade quate Nutrition selection
- Density calculation -correlated to soil and seed assessment
- Organic approach through Regeneration of soil
- Adequate choice of seed in line with soil characteristics, geo-spatial area location and environment conservation
- sowing seeds in seed beds, adequate shade protection(shade-),growing seedling ,nursery transplant, choice of site, preparation of the plantation, etc
- Replacing missing seedlings, upkeep of the soil cover and hoeing, pruning trees, cutting back old trees, applying fertilizers, protection for trees from disease and insects, etc
- Fermentation handling, management and and installation for most appropriate result in term of acidity,
- Harvesting the berries, processing coffee beans(drying, pulping berries),washing process, sorting coffee beans
Breeding
- Engage in advanced farming and agriculture production on 3 components:
- Economic
- Competitive on International
- Market Generate high yields
- Depending on the use of new plants varieties that affects positively their traits, availability to overcome plants disease and their quality. Therefore encourage to engage in cultivation of varieties, this by promoting agriculture production for the sake of the entire public.
- Feasibility study for existing, expansion and new plantation |
- Land Survey |
- Soil Analysis |
- Planting Density Calculation for planning |
- Adequate Nutrition for soil |
- Water source management in line with existing environment for system integration purpose |
- Assessment for appropriate field through agronomics data |
- Water treatment and leak detection system |
- Feasibility study for existing, expansion and new plantation
- Land Survey
- Soil Analysis
- Planting Density Calculation for planning
- Adequate Nutrition for soil
- Water source management in line with existing environment for system integration purpose
- Assessment for appropriate field through agronomics data
- Water treatment and leak detection system
- Water treatment for purification
- Requirement: clear water with little matters in order to avoid contamination of coffee beans
- Assessment of the natural environment, incorporating water management system (low cost) to purify water
- Pumping water integration system to reach out the farm for irrigation system catalyst and washing station at once
- Reducing use of water –applying different techniques for re-use of water from other sector of application
- Separating pulp of coffee from waste water
- Drip irrigation integrated systems
- Most adequate matching selection of irrigation system in line with prior assessment enhance productivity
- Application in line with water source supply in the natural environment
- SAVE WATER AND INCREASE YIELD PER TREE, with multiple factors ( from 2 to 3)
- Optimization of fertilizer and water are focused on the specific tree - BOOSTING PRODUCTIVITY
- NO dependency on unexpected climate change
- Facilitate Flowering & blossoming –activate pinhead formation of coffee is the MAIN parameter of PRODUCTIVITY
- Constant control of Yield per tree-from proper flowering & nutritional feeding
- Minimizing plot size by maximizing yield per tree (Kg/Ha)
- Sustain a visible and concrete consistency for incremental growth
UAV
- Mapping survey with high optical 3D
- Using VIS-NIR , LIDAR or imaging spectroscopy
- Monitoring canopy chemical traits : through hyper –spectral imaging sensor optical dimension
- Analyzing chemical traits for : detecting nutrition status, stress, diseases, predicting yield, water content, etc
Satellite remote sensing Imaging
- Estimation of crop water use and related water map status variability in crop field through image satellite
- Gather information about daily crop evapotranspiration result in better irrigation planning consequently increase water use efficiency
- Categorizing land in accordance with soil spec. features for performance adaptation
- Weather forecast application leads to new organizational and planning for planting(new trees) and fertilizer readiness for use
- All data acquisition(cellular, PC, Tablet,…) can be shared and stored through cloud application and/or data center
- Mapping survey with high optical 3D
- Using VIS-NIR , LIDAR or imaging spectroscopy
- Monitoring canopy chemical traits : through hyper –spectral imaging sensor optical dimension
- Analyzing chemical traits for : detecting nutrition status, stress, diseases, predicting yield, water content, etc
Sensor per plant for pre-determination of water quantity
Computer imaging vison for determination
- SHAPE
- SIZE (of green beans)
- Color
UAV
- Mapping survey with high optical 3D
- Using VIS-NIR , LIDAR or imaging spectroscopy
- Monitoring canopy chemical traits : through hyper –spectral imaging sensor optical dimension
- Analyzing chemical traits for : detecting nutrition status, stress, diseases, predicting yield, water content, etc
Satellite remote sensing Imaging
- Estimation of crop water use and related water map status variability in crop field through image satellite
- Gather information about daily crop evapotranspiration result in better irrigation planning consequently increase water use efficiency
- Categorizing land in accordance with soil spec. features for performance adaptation
- Weather forecast application leads to new organizational and planning for planting(new trees) and fertilizer readiness for use
- All data acquisition(cellular, PC, Tablet,…) can be shared and stored through cloud application and/or data center
Sensor per plant for pre-determination of water quantity
Computer imaging vison for determination
- SHAPE
- SIZE (of green beans)
- Color
Strategic planning
Marketing Plan & strategy analysis for medium and large growers as well as cooperatives (small growers)
Market analysis supporting
Cost structure –reduce operational cost target
Access to new markets and customer base enlargement
Stock management and supply chain
Certification process application: Fair Trade, Organic, etc
Grading and assortment
Access for alliance and new partnership in development
Ensure best access to premium selling price
Market analysis supporting
Cost structure –reduce operational cost target
Access to new markets and customer base enlargement
Stock management and supply chain
Grading and assortment
Certification process application: Fair Trade, Organic, etc
Access for alliance and new partnership in development
Ensure best access to premium selling price
Increase margin share of CVC for growers through
Source: UNCATD-Commodities at a glance- Special issue on coffee in East Africa
- Direct Trade
- Fair Trade certification
- Organic certificate and process
- Most appropriate seed selection for growing capacity optimization
- Improve quality, grading, uniformity of lots
- Conserve the surrounding environment
- Prioritize a Business Social environment through equal rights owner
- Develop Branding marks image with beneficial differentiation
- Irrigate with precision and ongoing data decision
- Master agronomics for performance yield
- Access multi channels sales structure
- Retain dividend for your community
Social Inclusion
- Enhance communities surrounded by coffee plantation through MONO –culture coffee growing for professionalism accession purpose while supporting food structure necessity plan on the sideline, by this gradually shifting away coffee from traditional intercropping resulting on complementary 2 distinct axis.
- Fix and access main seed crop available from LOCAL traditional growing history, this preserving most ancestral food nutritional system through own resources.
- Implement affordable irrigation system to enhance productivity and precise agriculture incorporation.
- Teach and access management business plan through multi-various seeds based on sharing system (KIBBUTZ MODEL)for benefit of all community at once , surplus being sold on close vicinity markets.
- Integrate most appropriate food crop MODEL in line with topography, soil analysis , regenerative process for conservation and preservation purposes
Social development
Through in-situ and precise analysis of priorities ,incorporating a supportive development through :
- Scholarship program and infrastructure
- Electricity for homes
- Drinkable water supply
- Internet Broadband communication
- Health Care infrastructure
- Cultural center for Youth
- Center for Agriculture know-how
Agronomy Processes for organic Implementation plan management of the land through:
Soil replenishment, use of crop system to protect and replenish soil health, use of compost made of nitrogen and potassium rich coffee pulp, mixing compost and hauling it to the plantation and weeding by hand, organic harvest & post-harvest principles applied…
CO² sequestration, core of plants is the roots feed itself with available food in the soil (regenerative approach), micro organism with all ecosystem surrounding applied…
Premium to smallholders farmers through Fair Trade & Organic coffee certification plan
Certification: Administration & compliance handle by GCI (USDA-European agencies for Bio) & Fair Trade
Create small-holders growers structure in partner power equivalence under structural cooperative principal (Kibbutz model) lowering entry point and share revenues of fair trade & Organic process
Conservation for the environment, improve bio-diversity, decrease CO² emission
Regenerate soil is ancestral tradition of farming but was lost dated back thousand of years ago needed rehabilitation for the sake of all
- Today GCI is the ONLY company providing an holistic approach by harmonizing all growing aspects under ONE roof.
- Once all (6) parameters are combined together subsequently results in a leverage multiplicator effect.
- Everyone by GCI brings unparallel expertise shaping the coffee organic agronomy growing process in a front-runner player.
- GCI is dedicated to sustain-[smallholders farmers]-ability to create their own prosperity in the coffee agriculture value chain.
- Transition from conservative world such as coffee to digitalizing one needs tremendous effort of mindset and adaptation, this process is overcome by GCI’s experience bridging both worlds.
- All in all we are committed to reverse the current formula of trade exchange from ‘’prices ofeverything tend to be the value of everything’’ INTO ‘’the Value of everything should reflect Prices for everything.’’
Nicolas Schulman
Founder, Economist by formation, holding Bachelor Degree in Economics from Belgium. Long experience of Biz dev. in undeveloped countries and particularly in East Africa. Last 15 years working in Industrial sector, mainly in Africa, as consultant, in energy saving process, electrical circuit components, flow of materials with equipment manufacturers .
Admire Chamisa
Worked for Utengule Estates, Tanzania; from 2011 till 2019 as an Agronomist. Previously worked as Farm manager by DownBell Horticultural Farm, Zimbabwe. I am Zimbabwean born who holds a Bsc Agriculture Economics from Forthare University, SA.
Yoram Eisenstadt
Agronomist, Irrigation and fertilisation expert – M.Sc in water & soil department from the Hebrew University.Over 25 years of R&D and consulting drip irrigation projects all over the world in various fields – orchard, flower vegetables and greenhouse production. Recent position R&D and consultant for vertical indoor farm in the Netherlands.
Jean Jacques Rolland Rakotomalala
Malagasy Researcher
PhD – University of Montpellier II-France
Plant Genetist – Breeder with
45 years experience on the preservation of Coffee Genetic resources as well on the use of wild coffee species for the improvement of cultivated species (C. arabica & C. canephora)
Highly skilled as well on Cocoa & Coton breeding
Perla Hamon
French citizen, PhD University of Paris XI- centre d’Orsay, FrancePlant geneticist. Professor at the University of Abidjan (Ivory Coast, 10 years), at the University of Montpellier (France, 18 years).Full Time senior scientist at the Research Institute for Development during 12 years.Experience on Plant Genetic Resources and Genome evolution focused on yams, sorghum and coffee trees.Fields experience in West Africa and Madagascar.
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