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D-green-coffee Dictionary

Green coffee

Dried, unroasted coffee beans

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Plain meaning
Dried, unroasted coffee beans
How to use it
Process and dry coffee carefully; green coffee quality decides price.
South African benchmark
South Africa is barely a coffee producer and imports green coffee for roasting (Article 123).
Country notes
Applies the same way in all five markets.
Go and read
M18
Calculate it
T-M18-04 Processing Margin
Library sources
LIB-A116, LIB-A117, LIB-P-Rooibos, LIB-P-Honeybush
See also
Specialty coffee
Tea and Coffee: the product, the five stages of the business, the unit it is sold by and where it is producedTea and Coffee: how the business runsSold bykg of green leaf or green coffee1Plant2Grow bushes3Pluck green leaf4Factory5Made tea or green coffeeZAZWZMBWNAProduces commerciallyImports most needsZA South Africa, ZW Zimbabwe, ZM Zambia, BW Botswana, NA Namibia
From the Tea and Coffee Major, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in M18 Tea and Coffee.