Peru Cajamarca Lima Coffee

Cajamarca is a semi-dry, semi-cold, tropical highland of Peru with very fertile soil at high Andean mountain elevations. All of these factors contribute to the potential of specialty coffee production in the area, which is growing. Smallholder producers farm on 2-3 hectares of land, many of which practice organic farming. Most farmers in the area work independently, but the recent increase in cooperatives has been effective in increasing the quality of coffees produced in the area.  The Women Coffee project with Lima Coffees puts a price premium paid directly to the contributing women farmers for each lot. Lima Coffees brings together 110 coffee-growing families led by women, heads of their groups. relatives and representatives of their own farms. This program was born with the purpose of motivating coffee growers, and future generations of women, to empower themselves and take the initiative to improve their quality of life, to excel and make a sustainable life based on agriculture, r