Indian coffee can be rewarded under EUD standards because the shadow has been grown, and it means that no deforestation took place, said Snowkap Co-founder and CEO Rajesh Patel.
“Coffee is an export item, but a lot of Indian coffee is grown shade, which makes Arabica quite different. From an EU discharge regulation (EUD) perspective, there is an opportunity to recognize and reward this. Or for historical reasons or economic reasons or both, Indian coffee, in particular from the southern, comes from shadow line In an online interaction.
Shady Grown coffee growing helps with the preservation of forestry. It is therefore a multidimensional challenge. “I think the supply chain of the Fyto or pharmacological plantation can also come in eud. Worldwide, 60 percent of the inputs in pharmaceuticals can be traced to trees, plants and shrubs. In the Indian context there are nearly 10,000 phytosignified trees and plants,” he said.
Some dilutions
Unless there is a notification of the EU, the EUD will be in operation in December for large companies and for small companies in the mid -2026.
He explains that sustainability is changing around geopolitics, he said that certain dilutions took place in the EUud implementation. “It’s not so bad. We have to continue with the assumption that these deadlines are real,” said Patel.
Many Snowkap clients take the EUD problem seriously and have started with the due diligence process -one to assess their willingness to supply chain for implementation.
Snowkap, a solution provider based on platform -driven technology, enables organizations to cross their sustainability trip with their carbon emissions that are measured and reduced. “We also provide services to our customers to take the measurement and initiated the mitigation processes,” he said.
Rate Supply Chains
At the EUud front he said that some companies assess their willingness to deliver, and the requirements are quite important. “For example, if a company naturally purchases rubber from Southeast Asia, geo data to identify precise locations that make it up? Are sellers willing to share the data, what can be owned? All these challenges are identified today,” said the company’s co-founder.
A few companies have started implementing these standards as a dry run, and there is “some degree of outreach, although not enough” with the awareness of suppliers, he said.
In the hope that EUD will become an inevitability, because some legislative actions are needed, with global deforestation becoming a challenge. “Approximately, 40-42 million hectares of forest countries have been summoned annually. A considerable amount of it can be attributed to the raw materials covered by EUD. Adequate technical trade restrictions must come in if those raw materials come from discovered areas,” Patel said.
Some tire companies such as JK tires and Yokohama have done reasonably advanced work in EUD preparation. Because India is a net importer of rubber, India could pick up a Eud-like framework and ensure that some zeal is done with regard to where of course rubber comes from for export as tires or other goods.
Other challenges
Soy, palm oil, cocoa, cattle and wood are some of the other categories that will be influenced by EUD. At the challenge that companies are confronted with in the implementation of EUD, he said that the entire value chain faces some challenges.
“EUDD requires the implementation of information for the traceability of information. You need GPS data, you need location data, where is every piece of what you have been exported? The implementation of geosystems and geotagging systems is not easy.
“The second is documentation. So the availability, authentication and traceability of these documents is not easy. The underlying problem is training and willingness. The Supply Chain is complicated. The refinement and training are less if you continue the value chain. How do you solve that problem? That is another problem there is,” he said.
Stimulas, variants of raw materials and interpretations are other challenges. Snowkap helps its customers to understand adulthood within their organizations.
Measuring carbon emissions
About challenges to act because of sustainability, Patel said, although it is a mixed bag, everyone realizes that the responsibility for their stakeholders outside the responsibility for the planet requires a number of efficiency. But there are advantages such as shifting to solar energy, renewable energy sources and electric vehicles.
“… Undoubtedly there is an irreversible movement and sustainability is now irreversible in world trade. That has a domino effect himself,” he said.
When measuring CO2 emissions, Patel said that his company brought artificial intelligence (AI) throughout the entire process of recording data. “If our customers offer our basic documents, such as invoices, delivery challans, purchasing orders, etc., we can extract much of the quantitative data that we need to reset and calculate the emissions,” he said.
The company contacts its suppliers and trains them about how to use the platform by providing the required data sets.
When helping customers in the trade in CO2 emissions, Patel said that before the trade takes place, companies must verify that their emissions have been reduced.
“Trade can only happen if you have reduced or avoided the emissions. There is a voluntary market and there is a compliance market. The compliance market in India is quite well cared for today. But the voluntary market has a lot of potential, and we have persuaded our customers to investigate and invest,” said the co-founder and CEO of the company.
Published on April 14, 2025
