Introduction to Coffee cultivation in Honduras Saint Vincent processing Plant, Honduran Coffee Manor

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Coffee cultivation in Honduras:

Coffee began to be grown in Honduras in 1804, and now there are 280000 hectares of coffee plantations, all of which are small coffee farmers, who account for 60% of Hongguo's coffee production. Honduras overtook Guatemala in coffee production in 2011 and became the second largest exporter of washed Arabica beans in the world in 2012, after Brazil. It now ranks seventh in global production. 92% of coffee farmers in Honduras are small individuals, and their coffee-related workers account for 12.5% of the total population of 8 million, so coffee is a very important crop in Honduras. In the coffee garden, coffee farmers harvest red fruits, wash and ferment them and grade them according to the needs of the market to meet the different tastes of consumers. Honduras collects 3 million bags of coffee every year, supplies good quality coffee and unique coffee flavor, and has become the largest producer in Central America and the top ten coffee exporters in the world. The coffee industry in Honduras, which involves the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of families and provides 1 million jobs, is an important economic agriculture in Honduras.

The relatively large producing areas of Honduras, spread all over the western and southern producing areas, have six major producing areas such as Copan, Opalaca, Montecillos, Comayagua, Agalta and El Paraico, with an average planting height of 1300 to 1500 meters above sea level. Coffee varieties are 100 per cent Arabica, 69 per cent are HG, 12 per cent are SHG and 19 per cent are CS. The main varieties of coffee are Typica, Bourbon, Caturra, Villa Sarchi and Lempira. Honduran coffee has always been of high quality, and its price is the most competitive in Central American countries. Small, round, light blue-green coffee, mild sour, full and slightly sweet, suitable for comprehensive coffee or single coffee, suitable for medium to deep roasting, mainly exported to the United States, Germany and Japan.

Honduras is already the largest coffee producer in Central America, and its production has been increasing in recent years. In 2012, due to high international coffee prices, coffee production exceeded 5 million bags in 2010, resulting in a significant increase in production, quality and continuous improvement. The largest coffee province in Honduras is the The Santa Barbara region, located in western Honduras, in the northwest of Lake Yojoa, which has developed into a famous coffee producing area in Honduras in the past few years. At the same time, the area comes from a famous agronomist Mr. Angel Arturo Paz, who owns a post-processing plant-St. Vincent treatment Plant (San Vicente) in the small town of Pe ñ a Blanca in the northern province of Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara) in the west of Yojoa Lake. He has always been the winner of the COE (Cup of Excellence) Cup in Honduras.

St. Vincent treatment plant

St. Vincent's processing plant buys coffee cherries produced by small coffee farmers in the surrounding towns of El Cielito, Las Flores and El Cedral, each with at least 35 families and one school. Although it is often difficult to separate these small farmers' production batches because of their small quantities, the coffee produced in these regions has always been amazing with high sweetness and fruity.

San Vicente, a family-run processing plant, is well-known locally because it helps farmers upgrade their planting technology and modify production equipment through projects, devotes itself to close ties with producers, and takes coffee cup testing as a strict check for each batch of products. This batch of St. Vincent processing Plant Tropical Rain Forest Certification SHG is that the processing plant buys small coffee farmers in the surrounding area to combine production and marketing, because the average planting area of each small coffee farmer is only 1 murmur2 hectares, and the kilograms of raw beans can not be sold independently, so they can only be sold in a whole batch, which is a bit like the type of production and marketing class of coffee production cooperatives or coffee.

Product name: SHG, Saint Vincent processing Plant, Honduras

(Honduras San Vicente Rain Forest SHG)

Producing area: Pena Blanca town, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara)

Processing plant: St. Vincent treatment plant (Beneficio San Vicente)

Variety: Pacas, Catuai, Bourbon

Grade: SHG

Altitude: 1300 to 1500 m

Certification: fair Trade

Flavor: Brown sugar, almonds, toast, chocolate, balance, sweet tones.