Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee is mainly produced by the Wallenford, Mavis Bank, Moy Hall, and Old Tavern Estates. It is consistently the highest-priced coffee in the world (outside of an auction system). A typical Jamaican farmer will pick his or her own "cherry-berry," and drop them off to these estates for processing and payment. For the 15–20 years that we have been buying Jamaican coffee, we were not able to work or communicate with the producers or farmers.
In 2014, we met a young Jamaican coffee farmer who founded the Jamaican Coffee Farmers Association, a private company invested in processing the coffee of a group of about 250 small producers in Jamaica. The idea is to band together, process their own coffee, and bypass the big estates' processing services. Since meeting and visiting their farms in Jamaica, Cafe Imports has prefinanced Arthur and the Jamaican Coffee Farmers Association, so that they can produce and process their own coffee and gain a greater share of the income generated from this coffee.
For more information about coffee production in Jamaica, visit ourJamaica page.
