The
first owner of this farm was Mr. Jesus Aguirre Panama, who
acquired it in 1874. He began cultivating sugar cane to produce
crystallized sugar locally known as "panela", corn,
beans, and tobacco. During 1900 he started planting coffee,
and called this section EL INJERTO (The Grafting), since
this was what started the agricultural development in the
area.
The current owner is Arturo Aguirre Escobar,
representing the third generation of his family. He has worked
the farm since 1956, when the production was approximately
three hundred (300) bags 100 pounds.
EL INJERTO has a total of seven hundred
and fifty (750) hectares, four hundred (400) of them are
between 1,500 and 2,000 meters (4,921.26 - 6,561.82 feet)
above sea level, all planted with coffee, fruit orchards,
basic grains and ornamental plants. The remaining three hundred
and fifty (350) hectares have been preserved as a thousand-year-old
virgin forest, which gives the farm its special climate and
adequate conditions to have clean water that springs directly
from the mountains. In addition, it constitutes the perfect
habitat for flora and fauna; and especially allows the production
of coffee in an eco-system preserving our natural environment.
The forest area surrounds the coffee plantations. The farm
has an annual rainfall of 1800-200 mm per year a relative
humidity of 70% and an average temperature of 73°C (23°C).
The soils are volcanic, profound, well drained, and with
high contents of organic matter.
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