Teofilo comes from a coffee-growing family. At the age of 12, Teofilo remembers going very 
early in the morning to his father’s farm to help him with the farm tasks, planting coffee, fertilizing, and picking the cherries. When he was 15 years old, he inherited a small lot of just 
0.35 hectares and on that land, he became a coffee grower all by himself. In 2011, he decided 
to become independent from his father and purchased some land to start his own coffee farm. He named it Suyapa honouring the Suyapa Virgin of Honduras, who is known as the Patron of  Honduras. In 2016, Teofilo learned about specialty coffee and decided to give it a try with the objective of achieving better prices and being more profitable. He believes that the only way of being profitable with coffee is to produce specialty coffee, as conventional prices are not enough to cover costs. Today, Teofilo’s sons help him on the farm. He involves his family on the farm because he wants to see his children follow in his footsteps. Teofilo wants to continue improving the quality of his coffee by working on his infrastructure and post-harvest processing. There are still many improvement opportunities on his farm, but as long as there is still demand for high-quality coffee, he will make these changes to improve on what he does.

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