Brazil Sul de Minas FAF Campestre Community Natural Arara - 34986 - GrainPro Bags - SPOT RCWHSE

Regional details As the world's largest coffee producer, Brazilian lots often come from larger estates that use highly mechanized processing strategies to manage larger volumes.

Minas Gerais is the largest of the three major Brazilian growing regions with six micro-regions, which account for 50 percent of Brazil’s production.

The Sul de Minas region has rolling hills and uneven terrain lending to farms that are small to medium in size. Sourcing Details From this volume of coffee, we have plucked a special treat traceable to farms in the community of Campestre.

Producers here started focusing on the specialty coffee market and working with an export company called FAF Coffees.

The focus has been to implement innovative farm management practices to bring out the best quality. Processing details While the driving focus is on creating farm management innovations, for the post harvest processing the cherries are taken to a neighboring estate called Fazenda Ambiental Fortaleza (FAF Coffees), where there is decades of processing knowhow. After careful selective picking, ripe cherries are washed and floated to remove damaged and less dense seeds before the drying process begins.

Cherries are gently dried on raised beds to reduce moisture to 11 percent and then carefully stored until it is time for milling and export. Exporting details FAF Coffees also helps producers with many of the logistics of selling to the international market, including warehousing and preparing coffee for export.