Close to 370 thousand coffee growers across Colombia will participate in the FNC elections, which will elect 4,608 representatives in 368 municipal committees throughout 15 states, according to Colombia’s El Espectador newspaper.
The elections, which occur every four years, will take place between September 6 and 7 of this year. Election candidates will be able to register themselves between June 28 and July 28.
Around 14,000 candidates from the various coffee growing regions will look to participate in the elections.
“These elections are the biggest of any growers in the world,” said Juan Carlos Galindo, manager of the coffee grower elections.
Growers are eligible to vote if they own a coffee crop that is at least 2.5 acres in size with 1,500 planted coffee trees, according to the Federation’s official website. Similarly, they must possess a federation coffee-growing ID (Intelligent Coffee ID).
Coffee growers without the Intelligent Coffee ID but who wished to vote in the upcoming elections were given until June 21 to submit the required documents to their regional coffee-grower committee, Neiva’s Diario del Huila reported.
Source: http://colombiareports.co/370-thousand-coffee-growers-gearing-fnc-elections/
