The women sew up the handmade and embroidered bags of Capulin coffee. Last year, Capulin processed 15,000 pounds of coffee. Hand processing employs men to tend to the coffee before it goes to the miller, and women at the mill. And it produces premium coffee, from the very beginning. Think of it.
Every little grain goes through so many hands.
That is amazing quality control. And it is a process that employs a village, something virtually unknown in the water-bathing process standard in the coffee industry. The coffee industry is big business. Per capita coffee consumption in the United States is 9.3 pounds per person. In 1997, world production of coffee was 6 million metric tons.