Joaquín A. Lovo López

The height of the mountains of the northern part of Nicaragua offers an unique view, specially everyday during down and sunset. This is one of the reasons why Don Joaquín Lovo named his farm “Bella Aurora” (beauty daybreak). The farm is located in Dipilto (Nueva Segovia). Thanks to the rise of the coffee prices, he has been able to improve the facilities of the farm, building a coffee mill with bigger capacity, a storage for food and agricultural inputs, the “casona” (farm house) and access roads.

“I feel very proud because I will be able to inherit my son a great farm…” says Don Joaquín. He has taught his son Luis Joaquín every detail of the farm. Now-a-days Luis Joaquín administers “Bella Aurora” and according to his words he is very happy doing this.

“We have a Mandador (farm manager) that has been with us for 40 years. Thanks to his help, we can say that we have one of the most organized farms of this region.”

“We take care of the water sources. We use responsibly the water springs. The “sweet waters” (waters after the wet process) are treated en three basins until they are completely filtered. The pulp removed and fermented from the coffee is used as natural manure” ... he also shows us an adequate use of dry coffee branches, which they use as wood for cooking. We were also able to see the preparation of huge amounts of food for the farm workers.

Don Joaquín Lovo fits his hat and ends saying: “Brother... we cannot continue destroying the farms because they are ours... later on Mother Nature will charge us with drought and lack of fruits what we have taken from her. My son Luis and I can say that we may be small producers but with a big consciousness”