Honduras Ecuador Small Farmer Coffee Quality How about St. Vincent washed Pacas Flavor Introduction

Producing area: Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara)

Producer: small farmers in Ecuador (Edgardo Tinoco)

Treatment site: St. Vincent's treatment Plant (Beneficio San Vicente)

Altitude: 1500m

Variety: Pacas (Pacas)

Treatment: washing

Grade: SHG

Honduras is located in Central America, mostly with high mountains and deep valleys, with excellent environment suitable for growing coffee trees, fertile soil, high altitude (planting areas are all more than 1100 meters), and unique microclimate. It is an indispensable natural condition for high-quality coffee.

There are about 280000 hectares of coffee plantations in Honduras, mainly small coffee farmers. Most of the small coffee plantations cover an area of less than 3.5 hectares, accounting for about 60% of the total coffee production in Honduras.

Honduras currently produces about 3 million bags a year, making it the second largest coffee exporter in Central America and the tenth largest coffee exporter in the world. There is no doubt that it is one of the emerging producing areas in the international coffee market, where coffee varieties are 100 per cent Arabica, of which 69 per cent are HG, 19 per cent are CS and 12 per cent are SHG, and the cultivated varieties are Typica,Bourbon,Caturra,Villa Sarchi and Lempira. The main planting areas are distributed in six major producing areas in the west and south: Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), Periso (El Paraiso), Copan (Copan), La Paz (La Paz), Gongmayagua (Comayagua) and Olanqiu (Olancho). The average altitude of each planting area is more than 1100 meters above sea level.

St. Vincent is one of the most important farms in Honduras, presided over by Mr.Angel Arturo Paz, a well-known local agronomist, and cooperated with surrounding regional small farmers such as El Cielito, Las Flores and El Cedral to provide appropriate assistance in coffee planting knowledge, technology and other related fields and to purchase coffee fruits produced by small farmers every year during the harvest season, so as to guard each batch of raw beans with a rigorous and orderly processing process. Its refined coffee is amazing in the coffee market with its high sweetness and outstanding fruit-like flavour. St. Vincent's processing ground is always at the top of every Honduras Excellence Cup (COE.Cup Of Excellence) competition.