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What is your position in the coffee industry?
coffee grower
Where are you located? ( City and Country )
chiangmai thailand
How many years have you been in the industry?
5
If you are a barista or shop, are you interested in a barista exchange with another coffee shop/barista?
yes
Tell us more about your coffee shop or barista skills.
Well,i can operate smaller systems,but have no experience with high teck,bigger and multi-task machines.French presses and any kind of drip.
What cities or countries are you interested in traveling to?
Canada(back home)italy ethiopia and kenya.i live quite close to Indonesia and Sumatra so there too.
About Me:
Came to Thailand 5 years ago and began growing coffee with athai man and his two sons.He is retired from Dep't of Agriculture where he taught Thais and Hill tribe people how to grow coffee in the mountain villages.We selected some land in and on the edge of a forest.We were the first licenced and certified organic coffee farm in Thailand.We bought our first seedlings from the coffee Dep't of Chiangmai University and subsequently germinated our own from seed and created our own nusery.
About My Company:
We are a Thai registered limited company consisting of three families and we operate our coffee farm at 880-1000 metres above sea level.We grow only arabica coffee but also grow cacao macnuts and some fruit as well.They are young small trees and 2-4 years short of harvest.The coffee however will give us our first crop this year and are presently in the beginning stages of building a small factory to process.We planted 137,500 trees but only those from the first year will cherry up this year.We have 15 salaried full time villagers working(and some living)on the farm and will hire as needed for harvest.The only other crop in our area is tea which they pick for others.
What is your favorite thing about the coffee industry?
Better people than any other work i've ever done.
Website:
http://www.pmocf.com

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At 10:16pm on July 12, 2009, Ben Cram said…
Just a thought, a lot of the top farms are now cupping micro lots. The best lots are processed then vacuum bagged at origin. I don't think a good vac packer would be a huge investment.
At 2:05pm on June 26, 2009, Ben Cram said…
Hi Deg,
Cecil just came by to ask me some questions on processing. I gave him what resources I have but I strongly recommend that you try to register at coffeed.com They have a restricted membership but it says that quality driven growers have a good chance of acceptance. Even the archived forums would be useful to you. There are tons of members on there that would be happy to help you.
Ben
At 6:12am on June 19, 2009, Ben Cram said…
Hi, Welcome to bX. Cecil was asking some questions the other day and I thought this would be a good forum for us to communicate. I would love to sample some of that first crop.
Cheers, Ben
 
 
 

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