Mount Everest organic coffee

Owners name: Phul Kumar lama

Contact: 9851027466

By suman chaudhary

In 1995, Phul Kumar lama started the business of organic coffee. Before it he was doing
the tourism business where travel and to make
money simultaneously. He started tourism business
immediately after completing the bachelor degree in
commerce from Shankar dev. In off-season, he
frequently travelled to japan in search of works and
make more money.
Now Mr. Lama is an owner of the Mount Everest
organic coffee. He is also owner of three large
organic coffee farm in Nepal (at Kavra. It is in 200
ropinies, Lamjung 500 ropinies and Rausa 200
ropinies). Mr. Lama got some idea about coffee from
his Japanese friends, then started research about it,
and soon realized that coffee was a way of life for an
any foreigners. He also found that second most Phul Kumar lama
traded commodity in the world after petrol was coffee.
He got idea to grow coffee in hilly area of Nepal. This moment changed his life lama says
that coffee could be our petroleum because there was plenty demand for it and we could
produce it. Although he saw, the potential lama had to start from scratch. Therefore, he
went to japan to learn more about his newfound obsession. Soon he was exporting coffee
to japan where customers guaranteed to purchases. They wanted more but lama could
not give them more. With some friends lama makes the phrase was ‘jagga ra pakhura’
which mean with land and ability to work, you do not have to migrate to other countries,
you can make enough here. The team went from village to village promoting the idea of
self-employment and how coffee can play a part in it. They started giving trainings on
planting coffee, and promoting the idea of commercial agriculture. However, the idea of
commercial agriculture in Nepal is not simple at all. Despite the number of people
involved, their involvement in agriculture is mainly focused on sustenance; only what
remains after consumption is sold.” Convincing farmers who had not discovered farming
as a source of substantial income yet was not their only challenge. Coffee, the plant they
were asking the farmers to grow, bore fruit only after two and a half years. At that point,
it did not seem like time was on their side. Now he exported to Korea, Australia, japan,
UK and Germany.
Nepali coffee cannot afford to be competitive in the international market by bringing the
price down. It is because Nepali coffee
has lower level of the caffeine in
comparison to the standard coffee traded
in international markets. This makes it
more coffee beans, which means it
requires more yield to produce equal
amount of coffee in weight and local
factors that have not yet been able to
generate economics of sales contribute to
the higher prices.
The organic coffee now becomes lamas’
family business. Now he is able to
generate the employment to the Nepalese
people. In farms it requires more than 50
workers to work in farm in coffee season
especially for the picking, harvesting and for the processing of the coffees. In 2005, when
the international demand for coffee showed signs of a slowdown, Lama left with over 70
tons of coffee he could not immediately export. That was when he decided to start his
own coffee shop in the capital. The coffee shop, with its unique brew, became popular
and was part of an era when coffee slowly found its way into the local way of life. His
company even runs a handful of coffee shops in Kathmandu (mustang coffee pvt.ltd,
beans coffee pvt.Ltd, etc.).