Farm: El Naranjo Dipilto

Coffee producer: Luis Emilio Valladarez

Tell us what's the story of the farm?

This is one of the longest farms to have. In 1990 it was bought from Mr. Jaime Albir; Are 120mz of which 30 are sown coffee. In it we have the wet benefit of name La Campana, here we process all the coffee from the farms located in Dipilto. Sown all of the variety Maracaturra from the beginning and also the variety marselleza and caturra but the latter a few years here.

Family generations:

-    Luis Emilio Valladarez Zelaya

-    Olman Enoc Valladarez

-    Irela Valladarez

-    Luis Valladarez

What's that secret that made you win the contest?

Having a good team ensures the quality of the product. The equipment I always count on is very diverse and distributed according to the needs to be covered, that is, from the farm with the guidance of technicians and people trained in farm management to our dry benefit with knowledgeable people in the Quality control we work in order to achieve and preserve the nature in our coffee.

How do you feel to be one of the winners?

Thanks to the work that we have done together our coffee have managed to reach and/or be up to where it is today and that gives me a lot of happiness and is a push for us to continue doing our work always well and always improving.

In what you're gonna invest the profit of the electronic auction?

The investment will be distributed: a part in social works of the community and the maintenance of farm and improvement in conditions for the workers.

Have you ever participated in the contest before? Did you win?

Yes, it had participated before with the property El Suyatal in 2006 that was the first time that participates and the following years obtaining good places among them the first one in the year 2015.

What do you think about the cup of excellence?

Cup of Excellence is an event that has come to encourage each producer to walk on the path of quality and thus also a means through which the cafes of our country have been able to promote themselves.