Alejandro Rodriguez - Transparency

Farmer: Alejandro Rodriguez
Importer: Semilla Coffee

Price paid by us to Semilla for the landed coffee at our roastery: 15.40CAD/kg
FOB price: 9.25CAD/kg

Farmgate price: 1950 Quetzal/quintal parchment coffee.
Regional farmgate price (2024): 1200 Quetzal/quintal parchment coffee.

Semilla paid 60% above market price for the coffee.

When you support small roasters like us who support small importers like Semilla, you help us all challenge the coffee status quo keeping the farmers in poverty.
Yes, we still need to find ways to compensate farmers even more for their work, and the more coffee we sell, the more we can implement a vision that centers farmers.