Colombian Coffee Growers Federation (FNC) is a non-profit business association founded in 1927 as a business cooperative that promotes the production and exportation of Colombian coffee to achieve its mission of improving the quality of life of Colombia's coffee growers.

It currently represents more than 500,000 producers, most of whom are small family owned farms. The Federation supports research and development in the production of coffee through grants to local universities and through its sponsored research institute, known as Cenicafé. The Federation also monitors production to ensure export quality standards are met and it is very active in all areas related to sustainability. 

There is a binding agreement between the National Government and the FNC to administer the National Coffee Fund. The Fund performs the following activities through its administrative agent the FNC:

• Guarantees the purchase of coffee.
• Provides warehousing, sorting, processing and packaging of coffee beans.
• Provides commercialization (Domestically and internationally) of coffee beans and freeze-dried coffee.
• Provides public goods and institutional services 
• Worldwide marketing, promotion and advertising
• Enforcing quality standards
• Research and development
• Technical assistance to farmers 
   
• Invests in the development and competitiveness of the domestic coffee industry

 

 

Activities of the FNC

• Technological Research - Cenicafé
• Execution of the Purchase Guarantee
• Technical assistance through the extension service Technical assistance through the extension service
• Quality standards for exported coffees
• Advertising campaigns Advertising campaigns
• Social and physical investments in the coffee regions
• Management of the National Coffee Fund