Bella vista Chiapas

Bella vista is a small municipality in the heart of the Chiapas Sierra where Rosalba was born. Her family members have been farming coffee for centuries. Farming coffee is a tradition, a sense of pride, their connection to the market is the main means for economic prosperity. With Rosalba's help they hand select the coffee cherry beans, harvest, dry, mill, process, bag and export top quality green coffee to the world

The courage of being a woman producer 

Women’s in bella vista Chiapas Mexico are mostly married at an early age and take an the tremendous task of raising a family in difficult conditions 

Thanks of the production of their coffee harvest, they have been able to give studies of they children, bring food to their homes and survive day by day

Although the money they receive for selling their coffee is very small, they struggle to obtain additional resources by washing clothes, selling fruits and doing other domestic tasks. 

As one would imagine, the labor that is needed to cultivate a coffee plantation is tremendous. Many womens that are producers of coffee became producers without choice, as for many years  Bella Vista has been a coffee growing region and the plantations have been handed down through generations via inheritance, death, divorce, or sometimes suicide.

To take on such a responsibility requires strength, determination, foresight and  the ability to accept risk 

To raise a family and reinvest in crops through the up and down market of coffee requires fortitude, but as one can see from the faces of women's producers this tough business takes its toll on even the strongest, whether man or woman.

Due the lack of economic resources a decrease in the production has driven many to sell land to obtain other sources of money.

Many have to seek opportunities to be employed in other tasks to be able to go ahead with their harvest and thus sow for the following year.

The goal of mayan harvest coffee is to fight every day so that the work and dedication of these women coffee producers is valued and recognized so that together we can make the difference in prices received by these tremendous women.