La Pastora, Costa Rica

Description

Our La Pastora comes from the Cooperative Tarrazu RL. The Cooperative was founded in 1960 from 228 small coffee farmers. Today, they are one of the most famous coffee exporters in Costa Rica. The reason for that is the good quality.

This crop involves collaboration with 3000 producers; more than 80% of the farmers just have 4 hectares or less. The Cooperative helps his members with credits, technical service, fertilisers and much more. Today they have 250 wet mills in Costa Rica; just some years ago they had 100, the purpose of this is, that farmers like to take care for the quality as long as they can. More than the half of the coffee crop is exported to the USA. Over 1 million tourists from the USA visit Costa Rica; most interesting region is Tarrazu, also for the Europeans. 

 

 

About Coffee Harvesting in Costa Rica 

Coffee was planted in Costa Rica in the late 1700s, and it was the first Central American country to have a fully established coffee industry; by the 1820s, coffee was a major agricultural export with great economic significance to the population. National output was greatly increased by the completion of a main road to Puntarenas in 1846, allowing farmers to more readily bring their coffee from their farms to market in oxcarts – which remained the way most small farmers transported their coffee until the 1920s.