Abdul Wahid

How long have you been growing coffee and what got you started?

“I have been growing coffee since 2010, I am from coffee farmer family. And I grow up in the community that grow and sell red cherry to local trader. I have started from childhood picking and selling red cherry from family farm to cover my school expenses. It was my dream to have farm and export after I had been worked as red cherry collector for one of washing station in my village. then gradually have own farm and exported my coffee to USA.”

What is your favorite part of growing coffee?

“Harvesting is my favorite part, nothing makes me happier than looking the red cherry on the tree, it is like for me a graduation ceremony.”

Conversely, what is the hardest part of your job?

“Planting is the hardest part. It is hard work and requires larger financial investment.”

What is unique about how you grow and harvest coffee?

“I am working with passion, true love. I return my profit to my farm, I built workers house before mine. I follow my clients advise and try my best to do similar practices to maintain the quality that my clients buying year after year. I am careful from coffee variety selection to processing and exporting my coffees, I am working best on consistency of best practices and sustainability.”

What are your plans to continue improving quality?

“I am going to do different processing such as shade dry, extended fermentation, anaerobic...”