Pedro Flores has about 2 hectares of land near the town of Copacabana in the Caranavi municipality. His land spreads across a ridge and he’s very aware of how the plants react differently depending on the slightly different climate they experience on one side from the other.
Pedro is part of the Sol De La Mañana programme created and run by our Bolivian coffee exporting friends, Agricafe.
Meaning the Sun of Tomorrow, this program supports small local producers to increase their long term efficiency and quality of production so that they can become sustainable. The Los Rodriguez farms play into this, with the varietals, techniques, and processing which they develop on the farms being passed on to the Sol De La Mañana producers.
The producers (mostly with less than 2 hectares each) get support in understanding not just coffee agronomy but cupping, the coffee markets, and much more. The coffee from these producers is delivered to Agricafe’s mill – Buena Vista – in the evening and processed there. Each lot is rigorously separated, measured and controlled to ensure the best quality for the coffee. In Bolivia, even a small portion of the coffee harvest earning less than a good speciality coffee price would be devastating to the producers.
- Country: Bolivia
- Region: Yungas
- Municipality: Caranavi
- Town: Copacabana
- Farm: Villa Rosario
- Elevation: 1,500 m.a.s.l.
- Farm size: 2 hectares
