Finca Deimar

We first visited Lucía and Humberto during the 2017 harvest. We were welcomed by Lucía’s father Don Lucio Mamani, at his farm Finca El Mirador. Back at Agricafe’s lab in Caranavi we really enjoyed tasting his coffee and were delighted when it arrived onto our counters. Since then, Don Lucio has expanded his production and his son David and daughter Lucía, together with her husband Humberto, have taken more responsibility with the coffee. The family have been members of Agricafe’s coffee program Sol de la Mañana since 2015. The program provides agricultural and market assistance to farmers in the Caranavi region, providing agronomy training to help increase the quantity and quality of coffee from the area. The emphasis is on the quality of the coffee foremost. Increased plant nutrition, better pruning practices, and precise harvesting, all lead to an improvement in coffee quality for which the farmers receive a higher premium. These factors also naturally lead to an increase in productivity, so the farmers benefit from the program on both fronts. The Mamani-Vilca family grows two varieties at the farm: Caturra and Catuaí. As well as coffee, the family grows avocados, potatoes, maize and have a flock of chickens.