Upscaling export sales through efficient production planning Sindhupalchowk Coffee Cooperative Union (SCCU)  is a district level umbrella organisation of 10 Primary Cooperatives with 700 individual members. The cooperative’s major business is processing and sales of green and roasted coffee and is besides in the secondary business of savings and loans and capacity building of primary cooperatives. They also provide technical training on coffee production and management. The cooperative also lobbies with government and development organizations and is receiving support from those organizations basically for infrastructure and machinery. The SCCU is equipped with the machinery needed to produce good quality of coffee  including a huller  sorter and roaster. Basically  SCCU acts as an aggregator for primary cooperatives and does the all processing from parchment coffee to green and roasted coffee and markets all coffee.

The SCCU is founded 5 years ago  in 2013. Now in 2017  the cooperative has been able to sell 14 MT of coffee. The major export markets for their coffee are Korea and Australia  besides the local market of Nepal  where most roasted coffee is sold. The members of the SCCU have 29 Pulping Machines in 10 collection centres  and the coffee cherries are processed into parchment  after which the SCCU does further processing. The SCCU was also able to get organic certification by Control Union  the Netherlands. With an aim to increase production  the SCCU has distributed 80000 saplings this year. The overall transaction of SCCU in 2017 is EUR 50.000  of which EUR 34.000 is from the sales of coffee. 2019:The project for 2019 will focus on production planning and financial planning to formalize the data with an aim to increase sales to 16 MT to meet the increasing demand of coffee in the international market and domestic market.2020: The 2020 goal of SCCU are:- Systematize the production and supply of coffee by contracting with 10 primary cooperatives.- Raise internal capital of union to 1 million.- Establish  one sales outlet/ cafe to shorten the value chain and promote coffee in local market. 2019:Agriterra conducted cooperative assessment in SCCU on November 2018. The CA concluded that SCCU should focus more on the business vision and financial planning to reach the goal of 50 MT by 2021. As concluded by CA  the action plan for 2019 will focus on production planning and financial planning to formalize the data with an aim to increase sales to 16 MT to meet the increasing demand of coffee in the international market and domestic market.      2020:Agriterra conducted cooperative assessment in SCCU on November 2018. The CA concluded that SCCU should focus more on the business vision financial planning and marketing to reach the goal of 50 MT by 2021. SCCU developed 3 years business plan with the support of Agripool expert. The business plan is focused on improving production  internal capitalization  market development. As stated in the business plan the action plan will focus on increasing production to 12000 kgs of green beans (60000 kgs of red cherry)  promotion and sale of coffee in domestic and international market  and increasing internal capital of Union to 1 million.