Plan De La Vega

Erwin Humberto Argueta

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In 1953 Mrs. María Figueroa de Argueta, obtained these lands from the hands of the municipality of Chiantla, in that year some plants of typical coffee, bourbon and maragogipe were planted, thus initiating the cultivation of coffee, later in 1977 she inherited her son Erwin Modesto Argueta Figueroa, who managed to plant in its entirety the 11.56 blocks of extension with varieties such as caturra, Green Pache and Red Pache, in 2005 after the creation of the municipality of Unión Cantinil this farm passes to that jurisdiction in the village of La Esperanza.

Since 2005 the farm is managed by the third generation of the family, Erwin Humberto Argueta Herrera who has promoted the cultivation of coffee thinking about quality, so the productive processes of the farm are changing along with the training of its staff, in search of technification and improves productivity. with the commitment to be environmentally friendly.

In 2012 and in response to the problem of coffee rust in Guatemala, we saw the need to look for new ways to market coffee, which is how we began the path towards specialty coffees by participating in different competitions promoted by Anacafé. It was in 2014 that we were finalists of the Guatemala Cup of Excellence, this motivated us to do things better, improve processes and improve varieties, so after doing some research we decided to start a batch with the Central American F1 variety.

By 2016, our plantations showed an improvement, the rust was controlled and we learned to live with it by improving our practices in the integrated management of rust. This year we reached the 14th position in the cup of excellence contest.

In 2018 we obtained the 7th. Place in the cup of excellence being the best traditional Arabica of Guatemala, (Bourbon and Caturra.)

The farm is constantly evolving, which has allowed us to plant new varieties of coffee according to the demands of the market, we will soon have results from these coffee varieties. Currently, climate change is leading us to be more resilient and we have adopted the National Coffee Association Program (ANACAFE) SUSTAINABLE PROFITABILITY, as a basis to face the challenges we will face.