STAYING STRONG AMIDST CHANGE

Panid is a veteran farmer who has been growing Robusta for over 20 years. When industrial-grade buyers noticed the group's success with their processing experimentation, they immediately offered 50% more for Robusta buyers in the region, reducing the incentive for some farmers to develop specialty-grade Robusta. Panid, however, decided to pursue his improvement. This invigorating and outstanding commitment is what wakes us up every day!

CULTIVARS:

Robusta

ALTITUDE:

525 meters above sea level.

Processing:

Natural: cherries were floated and laid on bamboo raised beds in a one-inch layer. Under-ripe and fermented cherries throughout the drying process were sorted, and the cherries were raked multiple times each day. After the cherries were dried, they're bagged to cure for two months before milling at Beanspires’ dry mill.

NOTABLE:

Thai Robusta has traditionally been processed for industrial use in instant coffee factories. This means that farmers strip-picked coffee that was full of underripe cherries and dried the coffee as a natural process on dirt floors. Thailand produced around 25,000 tons of Robusta coffee this way. Our partners in Beanspire met with a group of progressive farmers who have been trying to rely less on supplying their coffee to instant coffee factories and are ready to apply the same high standards coffee processing methods used in Arabica coffee processing, to Robusta.