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.
For more information about coffee production in Colombia, visit our Colombia Origin Page.
