UTZ Certified

Organising entity:

Origin Fact Sheet

G o o d In s i d e

DAK MAN, a Volcafe member
The Sustainable Group of Cum’gar founded in 2006 first received certification from UTZ in 2009.

Producer group:

Cum’gar lies peacefully in the eastern highlands of Dak Lak. Together with Buon Ma Thuot, thecoffee is of the highest quality with distinct natural aroma thanks to traditionally devoted
cultivation techniques as well as local climate and thick basaltic layer once formed from theCum’gar volcano.

Background:

Aerial Photograph – 1970 (Source: Google Eatth)View from Google earth (source: Google Earth)

Cu M’gar is a combination of “Cu” and “M’gar”. In E-de (a Vietnam ethnic minority) language “Cu”
means mountain; “M’gar” means Flower, named for Volcano.
Thus, It could be mean in English: Flower mountain.
Initiated with 602 farmers in 2006, now the group grows up with 1,267 farmers, of which 708
farmers are certified by UTZ.
Cum’gar group cultivates 1,012 ha which can annually produce up to 2,000 tons of high quality
robusta coffee.

DAKMAN MAN- BUON MA THUOT KM 7, National Road 26 Buon Ma Thuot Daklak SR Vietnam
www.dakmancoffee.com

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Y Phon Buon To,
One of the E-de ethnic minority people, a member of Cum’gar
group:
Under the UTZ seal I can improve agriculture practices, control
my cost of production and save money from making rightinvestments before selling coffee at higher prices.
I am now more aware of protecting water resources and theenvironment, not only for enhancing the quality of my family life,
but also for our community and later generations as well. Finally
I found that we are enjoying our happy life with visible andinvisible benefits from UTZ. It’s not small, but huge really!

Testimonial

Before being UTZ certified, we used to apply pesticides
widely and uncontrolled agrochemicals. As a result,important insects such as ants disappeared; theenvironment was polluted causing bad effects for us
and our community. Harmful insects without enemies
multiplied rapidly becoming an epidemic and seriously
destroyed ourcrops (Cicada,Pseudococcus
sp).
After UTZ training, we now control pests with IPM(Integrated Pest Management). W e just apply pesticidebased on the 4-step method, use approved pesticide,at the right time for the correct type of pest or disease.
We can do grafting of new coffee varieties ourselves
which can produce highly productive good quality coffee,
and resist incurable fungus (Hemileia vastatrix) as well.
Now, we can let all forms of wildlife live together, andthey can control and balance themselves. W e partly share our annual investment in organic
fertilizer (manure) instead of applying all chemical fertilizers, since knowing that apart fromsupplying necessary dietary minerals like Mg, S, SiO2, Zn, Cu, Fe, Mn, organic fertilizer can playa role as a store that can absorb chemical fertilizer preventing it from evaporating into the air. W eknow why, what, when and how to apply the right quality and quantity of fertilizer as well as
agrochemicals. We hardly buy anything at pesticide shops anymore. We know how to takecare of our bean quality from farms to the ports. Benefits we receive are not small. What
we want to say about our coffee is it is GOOD INSIDE!

For furtherinformationDAKMAN R&D TEAM
Buon Ma Thuot DakLak
Tel: 84 500 382-3201
Fax: 84 500 382-3384

DAKMAN MAN- BUON MA THUOT KM 7, National Road 26 Buon Ma Thuot Daklak SR Vietnam
www.dakmancoffee.com

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