Small Producers, Guatemala

This coffee is made up of beans from many small producers in Antigua near Finca Medina. Finca Medina provides a great deal of support to these Small Producers, acting as a central hub and centre for expertise and excellence to the surrounding farms. Finca Medina helps these producers increase productivity in a competitive way, achieving a better quality of life for the small producer and his family. In most markets the most vulnerable are small producers, due to different factors, such as: low market prices, high infrastructure costs, reduced accessibility to financing and technological information, for these reasons Finca Medina supports a group of small producers of coffee from the Antigua region.

The assistance is from cultivation to commercialisation. The main support includes training, technical visits to the small farms, educational tours, donation of coffee varieties resistant to rust, development of foliar fertilisers to prevent rust, facilitate protective equipment, donation of molasses, support in soil analysis and financing if desired by the small producer.

Finca Medina works as a collection centre for the processing and transformation of the coffee of the small producer, carrying a strict traceability and special care during the handling. In addition, the water resulting from the wet process is treated through water treatment and the pulp is converted into compost, thus avoiding the contamination of our environment and using it as organic matter for the soils.