Nicaragua Dipilto SHG EP – *48804* – 24407 – SPOT RCWHSE

Coffee Background

When coffee is cultivated and harvested from small family owned farms, exporters play a critical role in ensuring quality and fairness. Cafetos de Segovia is an export company in Nueva Segovia established in 2015 by two sisters (Ana y Martha Albir Sotomayor) with a focus on transparency so that importers and roasters can have the best access to information all the way to back to the farm level. This lot, called Dipilto because it was sourced from the municipality of Dipilto, is traceable to 3 farms (Finca Flor Azul with 15 hectares owned by Ener Elias Rodas, Finca El Ciprés with 30 hectares owned by Isacio Javier Albir, and Finca La Guadalupana with 10 hectares owned by Martha Nubia Zelaya). Coffee cherries are picked, hand sorted, depulped, fermented for 24 hours, washed, and density sorted in classification channels at each individual farm. Wet Parchment is then transported to Cafetos de Segovia’s drying facility and slowly dried to 10.5 percent. This step takes the burden of having drying infrastructure and labor costs off of the farmers, and also ensures more uniform and gentle drying using shade cloth to control temperatures. Cafetos de Segovia also has a dry mill facility to prepare coffee for export, which ensures traceability and quality control through the entire process.