Description
El Paraíso is a village in the Huabal district. Aptly named ‘paradise’, the village centre is atop a small mountain with beautiful vistas in every direction, sitting at 2000masl. Producers in this village mostly grow caturra, bourbon and catimor, mixed together, and the farms are located around the village centre and between 1800 and 2050masl.
The producers of El Paraiso have wonderful coffee and some of the most potential in the area, but for years they have been selling to intermediaries and receiving very low prices for their coffee. Not only that, local coyotes have been promoting catimors, which certainly have their benefits, but in high altitudes like those in El Paraiso they don’t produce much other than leaves, since they’re much better adapted to lower altitude. They were also poorly advised about aspects of farm management, pruning and the use of chemical fertilisers and herbicides. However, Falcon’s field staff are working to give expert advice at ground level, and improve quality and production in the area, which they believe holds incredible potential and could produce some of the best coffees in all of Latin America.
