The city of Puebla will host the 2025 National Coffee Convention (CONCAFE), with the participation of 10 producing states and 54 municipalities in Puebla. The aim is to promote a more equitable, productive, resilient, and climate-adaptive coffee industry.
The announcement was made by the Secretary of Rural Development (SDR) of the state of Puebla, Ana Laura Altamirano Pérez, who led a press conference this Wednesday in Mexico City to announce that CONCAFE will be held from June 12 to 15 at the Convention Center.
The Puebla official emphasized that one of the objectives of this meeting is to improve responsible agroecological practices with water and soil, as well as pest control management, ultimately resulting in healthy coffee for consumers.
He said that Puebla has more than 53,000 producers, mostly indigenous peoples, who cultivate 71,000 hectares of coffee trees, ranking the state fourth in the country for its largest production.
He announced at CONCAFE that producers from the coffee-growing states of Chiapas, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, the State of Mexico, Colima, and Nayarit will participate.
Among the scheduled activities, he announced the sale of roasted and ground coffee and the organization of the National Barista Championship, where talented people from across the country will demonstrate their excellence in preparing the most exotic and traditional coffee-based beverages.
He also added that there will be coffee bars, machinery and supplies exhibitions to modernize production and processing, and a presentation of the National Barista Championship. the “Sabor a México” contest, which will recognize the best coffee at the expo, and the final phase of the state’s “Calidad en Taza” competition, which honors the most outstanding coffees from the populated state.
She also mentioned that they have organized business roundtables to promote local and international markets, cultural events and artisanal workshops, as well as a conference forum and public policy discussions on production strategies such as freeze-dried coffee, regenerative agriculture, global genetic advancement of the bean, and recent innovations that are transforming the sector.
In the state of Puebla, Ana Laura Altamirano reported that the government of Alejandro Armenta is promoting a processing center for aromatic coffee, where one of its lines is freeze-dried coffee, and the first samples will be unveiled at this Convention Center.
Mexico is the world’s eleventh largest coffee producer
For his part, Santiago Arguello Campos, General Coordinator of Agricultural and Livestock Production at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER), reported that in Mexico, coffee is not only an important beverage, but also the second most consumed after water.
At the national level, he highlighted that there are more than 350,000 small producers, indigenous peoples and Afro-Mexicans, with more than 560,000 hectares planted.
At the close of the 2024 harvest, he estimated national production at 1.05 million tons of cherry or grape coffee, which is approximately 4 million 60-kilogram bags of green coffee, placing the country in eleventh place in the world.
Finally, he noted that the head of SADER, Julio Berdegué, has provided technical support in the agroecological transition of coffee, which has been pioneering in Mexico and the world, as the birthplace of organic and fair trade coffee.
Source: lajornadadeoriente
