Brazilian Coffee Cooperative Uses RFID to Manage Inventory

The Cooperativa dos Cafeicultores de Campos Gerais e Campo do Meio Ltda (Coopercam)—the Cooperative of Coffee Growers of Campos Gerais and Campo do Meio—is employing radio frequency identification technology to automatically manage its inventory of coffee beans. The cooperative, which is composed coffee growers, as well as producers of milk and other agricultural and livestock products, is located in Campos Gerais (near the southern tip of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais), a city with a high number of small farms and an annual production of 600,000 bags of coffee beans.