Jaime Ipia has been a high-scoring participant of the Cauca Best Cup competition for several years, with coffees scoring in the top 10 and top 30. He is a leader in his community, and is promoting coffee cultivation with his neighbors. he trusts that coffee production is the solution to achieving a better livelihood, and he is transmitting this to other people.
Don Jaime has a 3-hectare farm, 2.5 of which are planted with coffee. He picks only the ripe cherry, depulps them the same day, and does a dry fermentation for 24 hours before washing the coffee until "the water is clear." Drying time is 18 days on raised beds under parabolic covers.
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