About the coffee
- Cupping notes: Balanced, sweet, notes of dark chocolate, lemon, malt
- Cultivation: Grown in volcanic loam, in Rodríguez de Mendoza Province, in Amazonas, Peru
- Variety: Bourbon, Catimor, Catuai, Caturra, and Typica
- Altitude: 3,600-6,000 feet
- Preparation: Fully washed, sun-dried
About the people who grow it
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This coffee is produced by members of Cooperativa Agraria Rodríguez de Mendoza (COOPARM), which is an association of approximately 650 small coffee producers from eleven districts within the Provincia de Rodríguez de Mendoza in the department of Amazonas, Peru. COOPARM was founded on October 27, 2007 to offer quality coffee while ensuring more income for its members. COOPARM provides comprehensive technical assistance to producers, from seed selection to coffee processing. COOPARM also has an integrated pest and disease management program aimed at teaching producers how to control coffee diseases such as coffee rust and coffee berry borer. COOPARM emphasizes practices that protect the environment, including a partnership with Fundacion Amazonia Viva that helps farmers earn income from the sale of Carbon Credit Offset when they plant native timber species. COOPARM, in collaboration with the local hospital, funds cervical and breast cancer screening for its members and the community.
The history of COOPARM goes back to 1990. The parish priest of the province, Father Antonio Rodríguez Arana, was concerned about the low prices received by the coffee farmers from the merchants, so he gathered a group of producers and founded with them the Association of Agricultural Producers Rodríguez de Mendoza (APARM). In the first years it exported its coffee through the Norandino Cooperative of Piura, but since 1998 has exported directly. It remained an association until 2007, when it became a cooperative.
More information about the cooperative can be found here: http://cooparm.org/en/
The history of COOPARM goes back to 1990. The parish priest of the province, Father Antonio Rodríguez Arana, was concerned about the low prices received by the coffee farmers from the merchants, so he gathered a group of producers and founded with them the Association of Agricultural Producers Rodríguez de Mendoza (APARM). In the first years it exported its coffee through the Norandino Cooperative of Piura, but since 1998 has exported directly. It remained an association until 2007, when it became a cooperative.
More information about the cooperative can be found here: http://cooparm.org/en/