{"id":460,"date":"2008-07-26T22:48:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T13:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombathole.com\/dili-gence\/?p=460"},"modified":"2008-07-27T09:49:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T00:49:46","slug":"coffee-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Coffee economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know prices for foods seem to be going up everywhere.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s my latest figures on local Timorese coffee economics (in USD) :<\/p>\n<p><strong>The local bit <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Timorese coffee farmer receives about 30 cents per kg of raw beans<\/li>\n<li>After skinning, washing, drying &amp; removing poor quality beans, we end up with 1\/6 of the raw bean weight in processed, dry beans in export condition<\/li>\n<li>This means the farmer receives about $1-80 per kg of processed beans<\/li>\n<li>Processing costs, overheads etc. are (say) around double that<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The overseas retail end of the chain<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A single espresso shot is about 30 grams of roasted beans<\/li>\n<li>It takes around 37 grams of processed green beans to make 30 grams of roasted beans, making around 27 shots per kg<\/li>\n<li>Therefore the farmer receives around 6.7 cents per shot in your local coffee shop<\/li>\n<li>The processing company may get around 5 to 10 cents<\/li>\n<li>So if, the raw coffee bean price doubles, all else remaining equal, your espresso price goes up another 6.7 cents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In any case, using this Timorese example, about 10 to 15 cents of your cup goes to the producer and processor located here in TL.\u00a0 I am assuming export grade stuff in my example.\u00a0 The cheaper stuff earns a fair bit less.\u00a0 Similarly, the backyard processing operations.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your 13 cents of finest Timorese coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Note : Feel free to shoot holes in my analysis &#8211; this being a casual brain dump done under the influence of too much caffeine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know prices for foods seem to be going up everywhere.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s my latest figures on local Timorese coffee economics (in USD) : The local bit Timorese coffee farmer receives about 30 cents per kg of raw beans After &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/?p=460\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}