The Colombian coffee story cannot be told without giving credit to Colombia’s National Federation of Coffee Growers, or Fedecafe. Since its early foundation in 1927 the Federation has worked under…
Harvesting of the new 2013-14 main crop is now underway across Colombia and early forecasts peg the new crop to reach at least 10 and potentially 11 million bags. While…
South American coffee producer Ecuador has long been famous for producing the cocoa beans used in some of the world’s finest chocolate and the Andean country is far less known…
This is now changing as information about Ecuador’s coffee industry in recent years has started to reach export markets and the country’s southern-most Arabica growing province of Loja. Loja coffee,…
To reach the coffee regions of Loja and Zamora on Ecuador’s southern border with Peru visitors will travel straight across the central part of the Andes Mountain range, climbing to…
Arabica coffee in Ecuador is not only strictly grown coffee but in most of the producing regions growers can claim to be growing “alpine coffee” as a majority of farms…
Of the total Ecuadorian Arabica production some 70 percent of beans are processed as “Natural Arabicas” in which the freshly picked coffee cherries are dried complete with the pulp –…
Ecuador is one of only 15 countries in the world that grows and exports both Arabica and Robusta coffee, the two main species of coffee two main coffee species that…
But one of Ecuador’s undisputed jewels in coffee is found at the rare and exotic wonder of nature at the Galapagos Islands. Galapagos has long been famous for being one…
Local demand for roast and ground coffee, however, is on the rise, having increased over 40 percent in the last 5 years alone and local consumers still hold high regard…
