Por Más Café — Exportadora de Café California

Why it exists

Five challenges Mexican coffee can overcome:

Healthy farms

Recover the output that coffee rust cut by up to 70%.
New plants

Renew aging trees so they are productive again.
Access to credit

So farmers can invest in their farms.
Climate adaptation

Growing well in an increasingly variable climate.
Next generation

So young people see a future in coffee.

Our answer

Por Más Café · 2014

In 2014, Exportadora de Café California created Por Más Café: an integrated economic and social development model for smallholder farmers, who grow 90% of the country's coffee. Its vision: coffee once again as the main driver of the economy in Mexico's coffee-growing regions.

What we do

Each farmer receives a package of services tailored to their farm. They bring their experience and their work; we support them with everything else.

Renovation

Renovation, rehabilitation and establishment of coffee plantations with rust-resistant varieties.

Nutrition and inputs

Fertilization and quality inputs so the renovated plants reach production.

Technical assistance

Field technicians who visit the farm, plus agronomic and business training.

Financing

Credit and insurance so farmers can invest in their coffee plantations.

Guaranteed purchase

A buyer for the harvest and access to the international coffee market.

Traceability

A record of farmers, plots and lots: coffee is traced from the farm to the customer.

Where we work

Chiapas

Where it began in 2014. Fraylesca, Los Altos, Siltepec

Veracruz

Zongolica, Las Montañas

More than 4,500

smallholder farmers

Nearly 5,000

hectares of coffee renewed

31 million+

plants grown in our nursery

Part of NKG Bloom

Por Más Café is part of NKG Bloom, the Neumann Kaffee Gruppe initiative that connects smallholder farmers with financing, inputs, training and markets, and lets our customers know where their coffee comes from and the impact it has.