| Overview Coffee began to be
planted in 1999 and all the coffee plantation areas are located at an
altitude of 1,200 meters. No pesticides are used in the soil, nor
herbicides. Most of the fertilization is made with residual husks from
coffee processing. Duly registered and qualified employees form the
labor force used to execute all the property services.
Coffee processing system
The coffee beans are picked manually, in a selective
way and in some coffee plots only. Once the coffee is picked, it is
transported to be processed by the wet process. After passing through
the washer and the pulper, the cherry beans are transported to the
drying area, which begins in the suspended terraces and is completed in
hot houses (no driers are used). The dry beans of coffee that float in
the water/the coffee beans that dried on the coffee trees and the green
beans are sent to be dried on terrace, and can be placed in rotary
driers in the final stage, if necessary. Before being re-processed the
beans are placed in wooden bins.
Concern with quality
Specialized employees operate the modern coffee processing wet
process and dry process equipment. The property’s infrastructure
consists of a cemented terrace, a suspended terrace, hot houses, and
rotary driers fed by a central furnace, which guarantee more options
during the coffee drying stage, as required.
All production stages are computer documented, which allows the
reliable traceability of each lot produced in the farm.
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