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Matagalpa in Nicaragua has amazing scenery, beautiful cities and some of the best chocolates and coffee in the world. Would you mind a good cigar? Then this area suits you, too.

The mountains of northern Nicaragua; Matagalpa may be the famous coffee home of Nicaragua, but it offers more than just a good cup of coffee.

What are you doing in Matagalpa?

Matagalpa is an excellent base for those interested in coffee, cocoa and tobacco farms. It also offers great hiking, scenery and wildlife experiences. At an altitude of about 700 meters, you can also enjoy a pleasant mild climate, which the locals call "eternal spring". This is a good way to ease the hot weather in most of the rest of the country.

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Matagalpa Coffee Tour

The entire mountain area, including the nearby Esteli, is a mecca for ecological and agricultural tourism, so it is a good place to return to nature and experience local agricultural cooperatives.

We went to the La Carona community, about 25 kilometers from Matagalpa, and went on a hike and day trip through the local agricultural cooperative.

The La Corona community is made up of about 250 families, each with plots of different sizes. They set up an agricultural cooperative to optimize land use, season and sales capacity. The cooperative's joint coffee plantations give them access to the fair trade market, which they cannot achieve as individual farmers.

At Finca el Gayabo Farm, we realized that we had always taken our humble breakfast coffee for granted.

How coffee is planted and harvested

As we walked through the plantation, the fact that we considered some coffee was raised-

It takes a month for seeds to germinate.

With the advice of experts, the seedlings will mature for another six months before planting, and experts will decide which seedlings will meet the standards and which will not.

It will take another three years for the first harvest, which will start in November every year for a period of three months.

This is a huge time and land investment, only for a short harvest period and an annual return. If you lose a crop because of a disease or drought, it may take you six years to see an income!

Now let's consider all these logistical issues. Workers must be brought in to complete the harvest. They come from all parts of the area, so during the harvest season, they have to live and eat on plantations. Since this is a big annual income for coffee pickers, they work as hard as they can during these three months, earning about $1.30 for every two baskets of coffee they pick.

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