Nelson Fabio Cordoba

Nelson is a member of Los Guácharos and is trained as a coffee cupper with the local National Training Service (SENA), and feels confident and proud of his coffee quality. His farm, Finca Vegas del Chuscal is named after a bamboo-like plant that's native to the area. He also grows a variety of fruits, notably peaches and passion fruit, and he is diversifying his income streams with livestock as well. His future farm plans include building more canopy dryers with a polycarbonate roof that can withstand winds. He is also planning to focus on other crops on his farm to diversify his economic stability -probably more fruit trees. He says that he feels proud to be a coffee producer, and seeing that buyers have come to recognize and prefer his coffee gives him a lot of joy.