The CESMACH Cooperative in Chiapas, Mexico, introduces what is growing coffee in the biosphere?

CESMACH Cooperative, FTO Chiapas, Mexico-El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve-FLO

The History of Mexican Coffee

Like many neighboring countries, Mexico did not receive coffee plants until the late 1700s, when Spanish colonists brought coffee from Cuba and the Dominican Republic. However, during this period, Mexico exported large amounts of minerals such as gold and silver, so agriculture usually came behind.

It was not until the 1860s that coffee really became a valuable export. As a result of the border dispute with Guatemala, the Mexican government was forced to start registering land. This led to the auction of many previously unregistered land, giving wealthy Europeans a legal way to invest in Mexico.

Many of these Europeans, especially Italians and Germans, have opened large coffee farms in the remote south of Mexico and filled locals with local workers who previously thought they owned the land. Fortunately, the Labor Law of 1914 released these workers who had essentially become indentured servants.

These newly liberated and skilled locals began to develop the coffee industry for themselves, especially after the Mexican revolution in the 1900s, when the government set up incentives for new farms.

Mexico has never been a participant in the world of high-end specialty coffee. The view of many in the industry is that Mexican coffee can be said to be medium, to say the least, but these ideas are changing as more and more outstanding Mexican coffee enters the market. Mexican coffee has great potential and will only get better. We buy coffee from Campesinos Ecologicos de la Sierra Madre de Chiapas (CESMACH), a cooperative in southern Mexico, Chiapas. The quality of these cups is stable year after year.

CampesinosEcol ó gicosde La Sierra Madre de Chiapas (CESMACH) is a cooperative organization that brings together more than 700 small producers from 37 communities and four cities. Most of the members' farmland is located in the Triunfo Biosphere Reserve (Triunfo Biosphere Reserve)-a magnificent, protected mountain and wildlife reserve with endangered animals and plants, cloud forests and tropical humid rainforests, as well as 10 per cent rainfall catches in Mexico.

To help its members, cooperatives have made additional efforts to separate specialty organic coffee produced by women in cooperatives and sell these batches at a premium. The additional income generated by these efforts creates greater food stability, enables women to reinvest in their farms, encourages more women to take up social leadership positions and enables more women to send their children to school.

CESMACH has also established partnerships with a number of non-governmental organizations that benefit from lectures on cervical cancer prevention and can plant fruit trees to consume and increase income.

Producers mainly raise bourbon, Typica and Mundo Novo between 1400 and 1900 meters. CESMACH began selling certified organic coffee to the United States in 1996 and received Fairtrade certification in 2002.

CESMACH has been expanding its coffee facilities, including parchment warehouses and vehicles that transport coffee to dry processing plants. Together with three other cooperatives in the region, it has also invested in a green coffee threshing facility that converts pulp into organic compost for cooperative members.

We divide coffee into two kinds of roasting, which are light color and medium dark color. We have roasted and cup these New Mexico beans with moderate light baking, and they taste really good. It's best to try cold brew and iced coffee. Mild moderate roasting produces green grape, peach and lemon aromas with bright acidity. The wine is soft and light, with aromas of dark chocolate, toffee and nuts.

Medium black roasted with aromas of spices and nuts. It has medium acidity and medium mellowness and can bring you the flavor of roasted almonds and peanuts.