What is Mexican organic certified coffee? Introduction to the Flavor characteristics of Mersey CESMACH Coffee

Mexico is one of the largest producers of organic certified coffee, mostly sold to the United States because of geographical factors. The country's coffee industry, which began in the 19th century and was introduced through Jamaica, is mainly planted with Arabica varieties near Soconusco, a neighboring Guatemala on the Pacific coast.

In the early 1990s, the southern state of Chiapas became the most important coffee-producing region in Mexico, producing about 275000 tons of coffee a year, accounting for 45 per cent of the country's production. More than 2 million of Mexicans depend on coffee for a living, and 75 per cent of Mexican coffee farmers work on less than two hectares of land. These small farmers produce about 30 per cent of the country's coffee each year, while the rest are produced by large or high-capacity farms. Since 1988, especially in Chiapas, the government has increased income by providing simple loans to farmers and encouraging the development of woodland, encouraging poor coffee farmers to increase their yields and expand their planting areas.

CESMACH stands for Campesinos Ecol ó gicosde la Sierra Madre de Chiapas in Spanish (Alliance for Ecological cultivation of Alpine forests in Chiapas, Mexico) The cooperative was established in 1994 and is located in the ecologically rich El Triunfo region of Mexico. Coffee farmers grow coffee in the shade of the fog forest in an organic way in order not to destroy the natural ecology. Although this environment limits the planting area of coffee, the rotten leaves under the shade provide fertilizer nutrition for the coffee tree, and the diverse birds in the ecological area also control the pests of the coffee tree.