As the queues of farmers delivering coffee seem to keep growing day by day, I've spotted the first flowers on our coffee plants near the office, the onset of the next harvest.
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Busy times are upon us at the Buying Station. The past weeks farmers have been queueing to sell their coffee and as a result we have been working long hours. And after a long days work, when finally going home, the queue would still be just as long as it was at the start of the day, making it look like we didn't do that much at all...
As mentioned before, most of our suppliers are small scale farmers with coffee fields smaller than 3 ha (or 50 mu). Each year there is an increase of the number of these small scale farmers delivering coffee to our buying station. Last week we received our smallest delivery of this season so far. It came from a newly registered farmer's family with a coffee field of 0.4 ha (6 mu). This year they harvested coffee for the first time, the green beans, 17.2 kg in total, they sold directly to us.
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AuthorI wouldn't be surprised to find out I was born with a passion for coffee. For the life of me, I can't remember not loving coffee. And by that, I don't just mean drinking it, but everything involved from its cultivation over the processing to the final product that is my loyal companion throughout the day. Archives
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