Farm info

Sérgio Teixeira Figueiredo comes from a family of smallholder coffee producers in the area of São Tomás de Aquino, Minas Gerais. He began his coffee career in 1994 in the area where he was born before moving his production to Itirapuã, São Paulo where he acquired the 243 hectare Fazenda Santa Luísa e Bela Laura. The property was chosen for its good characteristics for coffee production like elevation, soil content, topography, and the generally technified production of the Alta Mogiana region, and today it is planted with 165 hectares of Red and Yellow Catuai, Obata, and Mundo Novo. 

 In beginning his career the initial challenges he faced were the need for investment in establishing the crop and acquiring the necessary equipment for production. Today, he has overcome those problems, and mostly only faces difficulties with finding enough labor each year. Despite this, he remains motivated to persevere due to his passion and love for the product. Now he looks forward to passing on the legacy of coffee farming to the next generation, with his young twin daughters already showing interest in coffee cultivation. 

This lot of Obata coffee underwent Natural processing. Red Obata was developed by the Instituto Agronomico (IAC) of Sao Paulo State in Campinas, Brazil as a cross between Timor Hybrid 832/2 and Villa Sarchi CIFC 971/10. The cultivar was released in Brazil in 2000, and introduced in Costa Rica by ICAFE in 2014.