Peru G1 Sol y Café Fairtrade Organic is named for the Cooperative that produced it. Sol y Café was founded in 2005 by 27 small producer groups with the help of the Caritas Jaen technical team. Since then, Sol y Café has grown to include more than 60 producer associations, representing a collection of roughly 1,000 coffee farming families from the San Ignacio, Jaen and Cajamarca regions. The cooperative continues to share an office space, small warehouse and quality control lab in the Caritas complex in Jaen, where it initially formed.
Peru G1 Sol y Café is grown between 900 and 2,050 meters above sea level. It is fully washed and sun dried.
Sol y Café
Sol y Café is committed to reliably producing high-quality certified coffee. It demands commitment from it’s producer-members who are expected to actively contribute to its growth and development. Producers requesting membership are thoroughly vetted requiring the visto bueno of existing members within their community or, lacking that, approval from the president of the board of directors. This strict management pays off, with the cooperative achieving export levels close to 80% of members’ collective harvest as well as high placement in national quality competitions.
The cooperative group offers field experimentation and education to assist members in increasing production yields. In fact, it has demonstrated the ability to double production volume over a three-year renovation transition process. Sol y Café is now implementing that at large by implementing a 300-hectare renovation plan with it’s members.
