Myanmar - Pha Yar Gyi Kone

This coffee comes to us from the Shwe Taung Thu farmers group, which translates to ‘Golden Farmer’, it is made up of Danu and Pa-O smallholder farmers who are producing specialty coffee in the Ywangan area of southern Shan State, in the east part of Myanmar. The group provides leadership, finance, technical assistance and market linkages for its members with the objective of bringing fairer trade conditions for its coffees. Pha Yar Gyi Kone is named after the village in which this coffee is grown, consisting of 200 member Danu households. The group has donated some of their profits from last season’s coffees to the local school. Each community has its own working group which is responsible for managing the processing of the coffee within each village. The focus is exclusively on producing dry naturals – the climate and terroir is particularly suited to this process, with very dry heat during the harvest season providing excellent conditions for drying.