More than 15 children from various municipalities in Huila are already familiar with the planting, production, and marketing of the grain.
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The initiative aims to create a culture of knowledge and consumption of coffee among all children in the department of Huila. These children are the children of business owners, coffee growers, and vendors. of the grain.
Young people from Huila aged 7, 8, and up to 15, they are learning the task of getting to know them well the countryside, its crops, the benefits, and—best of all—the traditions of their parents.
The activity called “Little Coffee Growers”, where the children they learned in the company of their parents the entire coffee preparation process using various methods, and finally, they learned to savor a fine Huila coffee prepared by themselves.
Children from various parts of the department have enthusiastically embraced the task of learning. different activities such as Chocoteritos and Cafeteritos, where children learned alongside their parents about the process that takes place from the farm stage through to the preparation of chocolate and coffee.
Catalina Castillo, a coffee farmer from the municipality of Teruel and the one leading this initiative, stated that “the idea is for these young people come to take their parents' place one day , that they start preparing right now, because they are the next generation—the ones who will affirm that Huila’s coffee and cacao are, if not the best in Colombia, among the finest in the country," noted the coffee industry leader.
Castillo de Apu Café noted that in this experiential workshop the children learned to select the best seeds of coffee and identified the main pests affecting coffee crops; additionally, they put all their senses to the test to perceive the aromas and flavors of the coffee and appreciated the processing of the seeds through every stage.
Excerpted from Caracol Radio
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